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[Jonathan Lighter]

Back in 1974-75, I met a fellow white grad student, from S. C., who
jokingly referred to herself as a "geechee."

JL

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:00 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Urban Dictionary: geechy
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geechy
> Geechy (most commonly spelled Geechee or less often Geechie) is a name
> historically given to and associated with the dialect of English spoken by
> _white people_ of the South Carolina low country especially in the region
> between Georgetown and Beaufort.
>
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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