tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post4124732376118897654..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: To the Deep Web ... in search of Maxwell GrayRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-51788700269650183752009-07-30T04:32:39.711-07:002009-07-30T04:32:39.711-07:00The Hathi full-text search is excellent. I spent w...The Hathi full-text search is excellent. I spent way too much time playing with it last night. (There is a 'Girvan' in a Jack London story and Dr. C has a patent claim and so on through various acquaintances). My only complaint is that it returns too many results. Pages and pages ... (four pages of results on 'boogers').Julie Heywardhttp://unrealnature.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-69552225271395547552009-07-30T06:22:13.395-07:002009-07-30T06:22:13.395-07:00The Sun-Dog Trail?"At Dawson comes the man. W...<i>The Sun-Dog Trail</i>?<br><br><i>"At Dawson comes the man. Which way he come I do not know. Only do I know he is CHECHA-QUO - what you call tenderfoot. His hands are soft, just like hers. He never do hard work. He is soft all over. At first I think maybe he is her husband. But he is too young. Also, they make two beds at night. He is maybe twenty years old. His eyes blue, his hair yellow, he has a little mustache which is yellow. His name is John Jones. Maybe he is her brother. I do not know. I ask questions no more. Only I think<br>his name not John Jones. Other people call him Mr. Girvan. I do not think that is his name. I do not think her name is Miss Girvan, which other people call her. I think nobody know their names.</i><br><br>It being Scottish / Northern Irish (I'm not: stepfather was), it wouldn't be unlikely in Jack London territory.Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-68691137898076949772009-07-30T12:15:22.742-07:002009-07-30T12:15:22.742-07:00four pages of results on 'boogers'Yes, wel...<i>four pages of results on 'boogers'</i><br><br>Yes, well... It seems to have drifted, parallel to the UK "bogey", from monstrous to nasal connotations. Did you see <i><a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3324229" rel="nofollow">The Bishop and the Boogerman</a></i>?. Then again, it's ever more complicated than that: see <i><a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MdENdlKWZ8AC&pg=RA1-PA333&dq=%22booger+n1+Usu%22" rel="nofollow">Dictionary of American Regional English</a></i>.Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-58712994492454016542009-07-30T12:58:48.765-07:002009-07-30T12:58:48.765-07:00It is annoying that boogers has "drifted.&quo...It is annoying that boogers has "drifted." I've heard bogie- or bogey-man but never booger-man (the Bishop is lovely!).<br><br>Somewhere in there was a transcript of a hearing by the Labor Relations board -- very dry, legal stuff -- involving a fired worker, boogers and a mustache. There was also one "Michael P.J. Boogers" who had quite a few patents with the patent office. Imagine marketing a product invented by boogers.<br><br>[Also, the London/Girvan reference you found is the same that I saw.]Julie Heywardhttp://unrealnature.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com