Re: [MacPerl] Shuck, AS, Perl, whatever, Pt 3. (fwd)

["David C. Schooley" <schooley@ee.gatech.edu>]

On Mon, Mar 3, 1997 11:07 AM, Mark Manning/Metrica
<mailto:mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov> wrote: 
>> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Zalman Stern wrote:
>> 
>> > "Husking corn" is also perhaps slightly more likely to be used than
>> > "shucking corn." (Which will cause American college football fans to
think
>> > of Nebraska...)

As a graduate of a Big 12 (formerly Big 8) school, that brings back
memories of watching the home team get pounded by the corn-fed farm boys
from Nebraska.

>Having lived in Georgia for a large number of years (when I
>was quite young :-) ) we never said "husking corn" but
>"corn husking".  If you worked in the fields you were a
>"corn'er" or a "corn gEt'ter" (with emphasis on the "E").
>if you worked to remove the husk from the corn you were a
>"corn husker" or just a "husker".  If you were the person
>who helped to remove peas from their pods you were a
>"shucker".  I do not recall ever calling a husker being
>called a shucker although I'm sure (since the two are
>fairly interchangeable and I was quite young at the time)
>others did.  :-)
>

Back when I was growing up in Oklahoma, my grandfather grew field corn as
part of his crop rotation. Field corn is grown for livestock feed and is
generally unfit for human consumption since it gets fairly hard when ripe.
Therefore we didn't do much husking or shucking of corn. My grandmother
would pickle "baby ears" and we would occasionally eat corn-on-the-cob
fresh from the field if it wasn't too late in the season. I think
"shucking" was a more common term than "husking".

>PPS: Ask me about tobacco rolling sometime.  :-)

How about "snapping" string beans.

later,

---Dave---

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