Re: [gardeners] Re:Scalleywags? Definately one word. ;-)
Gayle Fields (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:07:38 -0600
Thanks! I just love to learn new words. As for Texas - as my kids so
often say, "Thanks, I knew that. It just wasn't there when I was
thinkin'!!"
Gayle
Barbara J. Davis wrote:
>
> Actually, scalawag was a white southerner of the Reconstruction
> period after the Civil War. Since they were not often the most
> upright individuals, colloquially, the term is now used to refer to a
> scamp or trickster.
>
> Gayle, Texas isn't a land state. We have long stretches of the Gulf
> of Mexico with ports. Of course, there are also miles and miles and
> acres and acres of land attached to that Gulf.
>
> Barbara Davis southwest of Ft. Worth, TX
>
> Gayle wrote:
> > >I seem to be missing something here. I thought you were talking about
> > >Texans. A scalleywag is a British term for a tar gone adrift I think.
> > >I find it amusing that a land state would use such a term. Please
> > >enlighten this prairie bound mountain shrouded soul what you call a
> > >scalleywag!! Texas in the Caribbean is what I am envisioning!!
> > >
> > >Gayle
> >
> > There seems always to have been a direct link between Texas and the navy.
> > Maritime Canadians tend to end up in either the air force or the infantry.
> > I think it's the greener grass syndrome.
> >
> > Lucinda
> > >--
> > >
> > >
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