NPPF Re: Notes C.1-4 - C.42

Jasper Fidget jasper at hatguild.org
Sat Aug 30 10:02:02 CDT 2003


> 
> >>>pg 76
> "Southey's Lingo-Grande ('Dear Stumparumper,' etc)": I have 
> no idea other than Lingo-Grande == Great (or large) Language 
> (or lick)?  "Dear Stumparumper" sounds German, der Stümper 
> (blunderer) and der Rumpf (body,
> torso) maybe?<<<
> 

But then there's this: 

"stump jumper: US colloq. a person from a rural area, a hillbilly" (OED)





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