End of ADS-L Digest - 14 Oct 1997 to 15 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 15 Oct 1997 to 16 Oct 1997
There are 12 messages totalling 466 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Ask your help
 2. Etymology of _Hoosier_ (5)
 3. Bargee
 4. Folk-Etymology (Was Re: Etymology of _Hoosier_)
 5. Query: ADS session in Chicago (2)
 6. Warning! and a Request (2)

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Date:  Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:52:00 +0900
From:  =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCMixLXCEhSU05PhsoQg==?=
<VYZ02256[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NIFTYSERVE.OR.JP>
Subject: Ask your help

I am a new subscriber to your system. I am Japanese translator.
I want to know the meaning of a word. I will write down the
context of the book (The Railway
Children:by the British author E.Nesbit: 1906)

  "You mustn't take no notice of my Bill,( a bargee)"
said the woman; "'is bark's worse'n 'is bite. Some of the kids
down Farley way is fair terrors. It was them put 'is back up
calling out about who ate the puppy pie under Marlow bridge."
-----------------"----somehow, and I don't know the why nor the
wherefore of it, them words is p'ison to a barge-master. Don't
you take no notice. ----"


  * Please help me why the bargee was angry hearing the kid's
words. I do not know what is Puppy Pie. Is it something
insulting the bargee? This book is British and in 1906, but you
may know it.