Well, he was addressing himself to me at the time, and I live in Arkansas in
a town with a population of 15,000. Wonder how he knew?
I grew up in Dallas though. Do I still qualify?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: miker15@juno.com <miker15@juno.com>
To: bruset@home.com <bruset@home.com>
Cc: MGBDude@aol.com <MGBDude@aol.com>; mgs@autox.team.net
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: Hicks
>
>In an attempt to put this one in its rightful place, "uncle Dick" (the
>all seeing Oxford English dictionary) defines hick as follows
>
>hick, n. (colloq) Yokel......
>
>and Yokel is defined as
>
>Yokel, n. Country fellow, rustic
>
>
>Now, if you go to Websters, you get
>
>hick, n. an unsophisticated provincial person
>
>Yokel, n. a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town
>
>
>So it isnt applied to any particular region or area, only to certain
>types of area
>
>Funnily enough, neither volume provides an adequate definition of
>"wanker"
>(joking lads, joking!)
>
>mike robson
>69 roadster
>70 BGT
>72 roadster
>
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