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I find also a few lexicographical peculiarities which I shall 

 give promiscuously, as it is not possible to arrange them in any 

 definite order. Reverent is used in the sense of genuine, 

 ihoi'ough, as a reverent scolding, that is a thorough scolding. 

 Satisfactual is a vulgarism for satisfactory. Shoot is very com- 

 mon for shot, as "he made a good shoot." Arter for afler is 

 common all over the land. Bold is used in the sense of sti'ong, 

 vigorous, as a hold spring is one whose waters bubble up 

 strongly. A hunch of cattle, is the only proper expression here 

 in the West, but I never heard it in the East except in West 

 Virginia. Webster's International, and the other dictionaries 

 do not give this meaning for the word, though the Century gives 

 a hunch of ducks. May not this meaning have started in West 

 Virginia and passed to the West? Gradjate and sosation are 

 vulgarisms. * 



An amusing popular etymology is found in the name of one 

 ■of the valleys on Indian Greek. It is known as the Tuckahoe 

 valley, and takes its name from the Indian tribe of that name, 

 or it is at least an Indian name. The people living in this 

 valley are of the lowest class, and have a peculiar dialect of 

 which I have already noticed the most prominent features. Not 

 being able to explain the word Tuckahoe they have based the 

 derivation on the peculiar pronunciation of the past participle 

 of take (took, p. tak), and ahoe is then made to mean a hoe, 

 " he took a hoe." To this derivation the following legend has 

 been attached: An inhabitant of this valley once became so poor 

 that he was at last reduced to stealing, and he took a hoe, that is, 

 stole a hoe. This will compare favorably with the English cor- 

 ruption of the name of the ship Hirondelle into Iron Devil, or 

 the route du roi into Rotten Row, or Bellerophon into Bulhj 

 Ruffian, etc. 



Kittering means toppling, afore stands for before, transits 

 means, not transits of the planets, but transient guests at a 

 hotel. One minister, a hardshell baptist, or Ironsides as they 

 call this sect there, spoke of the texes from which he preached 



