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Out-uf-the-way fegions like the Ozark Hills develop a vocabulary of their own. The Ozarkians like double words that describe the object, observes Joe Nelson in his interesting book Backwoods Teacher (Lippincott).
Thus they say tooth dentist instead of the abrupt word dentist, it sounds more explanatory and sociable. Likewise they call in a satchel doctor for a friendly conference and give him a drink of corn licker before paying him cash money that otherwise might have gone to a witch woman.
Such citizen, recovered from his bed sickness, might take down his trusty rifle gun, let his wife get in her own cook wood, and saunter off to a play party or even to a fiddle dance to sweet-talk the neighbor gals.
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There are 66-million American males of 18 or over, yet the largest number of men’s suits made by the clothing industry in a year was 26-million. That comes to four-tenths of one suit per msite per year. (The report didn’t say which four-tenths.) Lately, according to the New Yorker magazine the American male is consuming only three-tenths of one suit per year.
It has been noted for a couple of decades the increasing sartorial degradation of the American male. The depression of the ’30’s got in some deadly work. The automobile
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