Old Uncle Crow

by Old Uncle Crow

IN Her now out-of-print Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting? (Stein & Day 1977, New York) Florence King explains that in American vulgar speech & malediction, the exclamatory balls of (more…)

 by Old Uncle Crow

[HERE'S What Old Uncle Crow had to say in the blogs over there in God-damn ENGLAND this weekend.  Jesus Christ, even today they're (more…)

by Old Uncle Crow

ON walking into the offices of the Eagle Lake and Madison Lake, Minnesota, grain-elevators with my uncle when I was a small boy in the late-1950s, the following address-mode was de rigeuer.

ELEVATOR-Manager Glen Briley or Assistant Manager “Tiny” Sticha, to my uncle:  “Emmett!  God (more…)

by Old Uncle Crow

IN The following link, earlier in these pages, I introduced readers to the noun cunoden, pl cunodens:

http://oldunclecrow.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/idiolect-an-example/

I Note that nowhere in that text did I give an example of our late mother’s use of mort, an adjective (more…)