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[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Wilson?


You got me. I read somewhere - Mario Pei? EBONY? - a while ago, that Bill
"Bojangles" Robinson made it up. He was still alive and kicking, in my lost
youth, but, AFAIK, nobody ever asked him and he never claimed it.

Speaking of "Bojangles," it was Edward "Bojigger" McGrew, younger brother
of Edgar "Hambone" McGrew who told me my first shaggy-dog story. I don’t
know whether ther’s any etymological connection between "Boj[angles]" and
"Boj[igger]" or why Edgar’s nickname was "Hambone."

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-Wilson
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