BBER Ch. 3 Daytona

[Dave Monroe]

Daytona Lorrain

The baby girl name Daytona is also used as a boy name. It is
pronounced as DeyTOWNah †. Daytona is of English origin. The name
Daytona means 'sunny town'.

http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Daytona/f

In American, the name Daytona means- speedy. The name Daytona
orginated as an American name. The name Daytona is most often used as
a girl name or female name.

http://www.meaning-of-names.com/american-names/daytona.asp

Daytona Beach, Volusia County -- Daytona Beach is named after its
founder, Mathias Day.

http://www.flheritage.com/facts/reports/names/#D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_Beach,_Florida#History

Lorrain is a dialect (often referred to as patois) spoken by a
minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in
Gaume in Belgium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrain_dialect


Night Train (BE, Ch. 3, p. 20)

http://www.bumwine.com/nighttrain.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavored_fortified_wines#Brands


"wine-ism," "therapism"

Classism? Racism?

Is Daytona's dialect/patois racist? Is Maxine's reference to Night Train?


"'twelve-step people'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program


"it all comes plotzing forth" (BE, Ch. 3, p. 20)

>From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, “to split, crack, burst, explode”).

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plotz

Cf. "a screaming comes across the sky" ...
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