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Page 14yHThe Battalion/Tuesday September 3, 1983
Dictionary defines folk expressions
Associated Press
BOSTON — There are Texans
who call meringue “calf-slobber,”
Tennesseans who refer to snoring as
“calling the hogs” and Wisconsinites
who say a suspicious person has
“beans up his nose.”
Some New Jersey residents suffer
“buckwheat itch,” supposedly from
eating pancakes in summer. In Vir
ginia and North Carolina, firecrack
ers are called “baby-wakers.” To be
bow-legged in Kentucky is to be
“bandy-shanked.”
Those folk expressions and thou
sands like them now can be found in
one place, the Dictionary of Ameri
can Regional English, which took
nearly 100 years from conception to
publication.
The first volume of the diction
ary, edited by Frederic G. Cassidy,
professor emeritus at the University
of Wisconsin and head of its DARE
Institute, recently was published by
. . . _ ill
Harvard University Press and wil
soon be in bookstores. For $49.95,
you get 903 pages covering “a”
through “c.”
This volume, and four more ex
pected over the next several years,
are the results of the first compila
tion of the quaint, funny, sad, melo
dious and vulgar strains in American
speech.
“You get a sense sometimes that
people were trying to outdo each
other in coming up with colorful ex
pressions,” Cassidy, 77, said.
different names. There is the lan
guage of children’s games, foreign
phrases, illnesses and natural phe
nomena.
from local publications by theAraa
1, foi
There are euphemisms, such as
calling an illegitimate child a “catch
colt” in parts of the Northwest or
warning a woman in the South that
her slip is showing by saying her
“cotton is low.”
ican Dialect Society, founded
1889. That work was expanded li
Cassidy, whose assistants conduct
1,847-question surveys in
communities from 1965 to 1970.
The
■ project got started in eamc
Cassidy began badeerineti
Ctiurch i
life on U
society to make good on its promj
to publish such a dictionary.
Pool
Jact
Larg
Food, for example, spawned ex
pressions such as “Cape Cod turkey”
for codfish, “Albany beef’ for stur
geon, “Connecticut River pork” for
shad, “Alaska turkey” for salmon
and “Arkansas T-bone” for bacon.
There are scores of local names
for fauna and flora, such as the
black-eyed Susan which yielded 50
There are etymologies. “Cake
walk” or “piece of cake,” meaning
something easy, has its roots in black
dance contests that featured a cake
as first prize.
The dictionary also captured
words fading from the language. Ex
amples include “old chestnuts,” to
Northeasterners something that is
worn out by use.
"I kept asking when it wasgoii
to be done,” he said. ‘T hey askedn
how to do it. I wrote an artidci
them on how 1 would do it. ,.j
then found myself appointed i
tor.”
Mon.-S
The dictionary’s foundation is the
more than 40,000 expressions culled
That was 1963, and he and ft
lessor Audrey R. Duckert of il
University of Massachusetts setT
work.
The final volume will indudeo
densations of the more than 21
lion responses to the questionnairtl
300
Franciscan Sisters make altar bread
fliciency apartmt
50. deposit ‘250
Inly single.
Associated Press
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — In a small room,
off the corner of the cafeteria at St. Francis Con
vent, six members of the Franciscan Sisters carry
on a tradition that was started nearly a century
ago.
Using the simplest of ingredients — flour and
water — they make altar bread. For Catholics,
the thin, crisp wafers will become the “Body of
Christ” once they’re blessed at a church.
What may look like a small operation is, in fact,
a $3.5 million business for the Franciscans. The
tiny bakery produces about 20,000 Communion
wafers a day.
Since its beginning in the late 1800s, members
of the Little Falls Franciscan community have
been rising early in the morning and heading for
the bakery to make sure that the Communion
wafers are fresh.
According to Sister Anne Furstahl, head baker
and assistant administrator at the convent, altar
bread is mailed to 150 locations in Minnesota and
Wisconsin. Besides regular shipments to Catholic
parishes, the Franciscans also ship altar bread to
three Episcopalian and five Lutheran churches.
Making flour and water into altar bread begins
at the mixer where the two ingredients are com
bined into a thin slurry. The Catholic church dic
tates that only these two ingredients be used in
the wafers.
After the batter is thoroughly mixed and left
to thicken slightly, two sisters ladle two scoops of
the mixture onto hot griddles. Another griddle
sejuishes the batter fiat and an automatic timer
clicks off 60 seconds as the women clean the
edges of overflow batter.
Out of the presser come shiny sheets of cooked
batter barely one-sixteenth-inch thick. After
steaming in specially designed cupboards for up
to six hours to soften the crisp sheets, it is time
for the cutting.
While cooking, the sheets have been imprinted
with 3-inch circles. These are the hosts that will
be used by priests during the Communion sacra
ment. Each contains a neatly embossed religious
symbol.
There is an automatic cutter, which punches
out eight small hosts with each stroke of its
With 104 hosts to a sheet, the numbers qi
add up. Between 18,000 and 20,000 hosts, w
will be distributed to parishioners, are cut
the automatic cutter each day.
After the baking is completed there are
hosts to be counted and wrapped, small hosts
be packaged by weight, labels to be add
and scraps to be whisked away in preparation
another day.
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In its early years, when the Franciscan Mod I
house began making altar bread, the hostswl
distributed strictly on a donation basis, Sd I
Anne said. But the costly special equipmenti I
the escalating cost of electricity forced thesisa I
to begin charging for the hosts several yearsaj I
Small white hosts now cost $7 a thousand. Wli I
wheat is sold for S8 a thousand.
Sister Anne estimates that there are about I
bakeries in the United States which maketht I
tar bread for shipment all over the world. Bull I
sisters say they are happy being a small ope I
tion.
Collector produces key chains
with scorpions preserved in resin
Associated Press
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Aided by
a black light, Darwin “Tex” Al
ldredge prowls the desert, tweezers
and tongs in hand, looking under
brittle bushes and between the twigs
of mesquite.
He’s collecting scorpions. Or black
widow spiders. Or tarantulas.
If he is quick enough, and all con
ditions are right — such as a breeze
blowing and no moonlight — he can
gather between 100 and 250 of the
fast-moving arachnids each night.
Embedding them in resin, he
turns them into paper weights, belt
buckles, bola ties and key chains.
Alldredge, 72, makes a nightly
routine of Finding a spot in the de
sert to hunt the elusive scorpions
from which he makes these items.
He does not hunt black widows nor
tarantulas at the same time nor in
the same location.
The collector, who takes only Sat
urday night off, wears a heavy pair
of boots, well-worn blue jeans, an old
short-sleeved shirt, and baseball cap.
He attaches to his waist a gallon
sized plastic milk bottle which has
the top cut out. He hand-carries a
black light that is hooked up to a mo
torcycle battery. The battery is
placed in a basket and carried over
one shoulder.
This night he was looking for
small-to medium-sized scorpions.
The big ones are left undisturbed to
scamper back into their holes.
Off he goes into the desert,
usually alone, while his wife,
Thelma, who is handicapped as the
result of a car accident, sits and waits
in the family four-wheel-drive vehi
cle.
He admits to having been lost at
times. So before leaving home base,
he puts a bright bug light on top of
the jeep so that he will be able to find
his way back from the rugged desert
ravines.
“If a person got stung, it would
only be like a wasp sting,” he said.
“I’ve only been stung three or four
times in the past six years.”
He explained that the bark scor
pion is the only poisonous scorpion
of the 11 varieties in Arizona. It is
found around the bark of dead
trees, such as saguaro cactus, and
particularly in the Horseshoe Dam
area.
“They are the bad dudes,” he
added. “If you get stung by one of
them you’ll know it. They can kill a
child.
“Now what you’re looking for is a
white speck, like a snowball,” Al
ldredge said while he zigzagged
through the brush in the cool night.
“You’re not looking for something
with a shape. There’s one, see what it
looks like?”
What Alldredge was shining his
light on had a bright fluorescent
quality and appeared as a large
white object under the light. Ap
proaching closer, one could make
out the segmented body and arched
tail, which went up as the scorpion
scurried toward Alldredge.
“For all intents and purposes scor-
ions are blind,” he said. “They
now someone 1 is near because the
earth is shaking from our walking.
They are an eating machine and out
looking for gnats, out they’ll eat any
thing. And they don’t get far from
their dens.”.
Alldredge spotted a small white
object that looked like a piece of
string and quickly stooped down to
pluck the scorpion before it could
scamper away.
“I need a lot of the small ones,” he
said. “I call them prairie dogs when
they go into their holes. I caught 224
the other night when I got lost. It
took me 30 minutes to find the car.”
Alldredge sorts the scorpions by
size and places them in alcohol,
which kills and preserves them.
After this process is complete, he
stretches them out to dry on boards
before embedding them in resin.
“The alcohol replaces the water in
their body and then I stretch them
out on the boards,” he said. “The
hardest part is getting them to
spread out.”
For eight years Alldredge has
been hunting scorpions out in the
desert and plucking black widows
from alley fences around Scottsdale.
He began his hunting as a hobby and
it has turned into a cottage business.
He and his wife moved to
Scottsdale from Illinois because the
warm climate gives Thelma Al
ldredge relief from the injuries she
sustained in the accident.
Newlyweds
celebrate by
crashing cars
Associated Press
WESTBORO, Mass. - Sofl
couples drink champagne
dance when they tie the kw
Frances McLain and Kevin lii
say celebrated by smashing
their cars.
mg
4,000 fans at Westboro Speed*
ipee
Sunday night, just before t
Sterling couple took part in ad
molition derby, where drivf
bang their cars into their
nents’ until only one car c
move.
The groom, a telephone ted
nician, drove a black car wiili
tuxedo painted on the hood H
bride drove a white sedan will
lace trim around the hood and
bridal veil hanging inside il
back windshield. Both cars l)
f old rings painted on the If
ront tires.
The bride, a medical secretafl
wore a silver-gray jumpsuit wli
the groom was dressed in blai
jeans, black running shoes, whi
shirt, black leather vest and
black bow tie.
The couple exchanged vows:
front of the announcer’s bod
and after a quick kiss, the coupl
got back into their cars and it
derby commenced.
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