[Ads-l] Read: "_snap beans_ (string beans)"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 19, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> During my childhood in eastern Texas: "string beans" had to be strung (!)

Or, equivalently, unstrung

> prior to cooking and eating, whereas "snap beans" (like Kentucky Wonders) did not require stringing--just the snapping off of the ends.

And unsnapping the beans (detopping and detailing?) would pose a logistical difficulty.

LH  
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Margaret Lee <0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:41:44 AM
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> Subject: Re: Read: "_snap beans_ (string beans)"
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> When I was growing up in central Virginia,  we referred to 'snap beans' as 'snaps.' They were the same as 'string beans.' My husband's family from eastern Virginia, called them exclusively 'snap beans,' not 'snaps' or 'string beans.'
> --Margaret Lee
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>    On ‎Sunday‎, ‎March‎ ‎18‎, ‎2018‎ ‎10‎:‎13‎:‎03‎ ‎PM‎ ‎EDT, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> That is, "snap beans" are merely string beans that have been "snapped."
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> When I was but a tad, down yonder in East Texas, "snap beans" and "strang
> beans" were *not* the same thang, any more than black-eyed peas and
> purple-hulled peas were considered to be the same thing.
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> Unfortunately, I can't go any farther with this. I'm now the patriarch of
> the Texas branch of my family and there's no one older with whom I can
> check out my childhood memories.
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