[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: It's always vocabulary time when you scan or proofread!
- From: Cynthia Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 00:04:34 -0700
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that.
Yes, my vocabulary is increased all the time by proofing, as well as
reading; some terms from the 18th and 19th centuries whenI read
historical fiction. In a book I'm proofing now; one of the bank
robbers is a "chub" When I googled I found a Wikipedia definition:
an obese gay man; one who relates to both the gay and the overweight
cultures
Cindy
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am getting a book about President Calvin Coolidge ready for the
> collection, and ran across a phrase in it that had me totally stumped. It
> was "cab shop." When I checked the printed copy of the book, the phrase is
> correct. It's not a scanno, but I had no idea what it meant in the context
> in which it was used. The sentences around it didn't help either. The
> actual words are: the lesser activity of the village was a cab shop. I
> worked there some on Saturdays, so I came to know how toys and baby wagons
> were made. " That left me puzzled. What do toys and baby wagons have to do
> with something called a cab shop?
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> I finally found out it means! It's a little bit of Vermont regional
> language from President Coolidge's time, from before the 1930s. Toy baby
> buggies, the little toy strollers a young girl would play with to push her
> doll around, were called baby cabs. At that time a business that made baby
> buggies was then called a cab shop.
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> So thanks to volunteering I learned a neat little snippet of Vermont history
> and regional vocabulary today. smile.
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> Judy s.
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