Have You Heard?

[Skip 2 my Bartz]

Originally posted by Ken Loyd
Do the cows still wander the streets of Indy?

Ken Loyd
Team 64

No, there are no cows in the streets of Indy. I did hear that there are some nasty cacti in AZ. Ya gotta respect Naptown!

[Ken Loyd]

Originally posted by Skip 2 my Bartz
No, there are no cows in the streets of Indy. I did hear that there are some nasty cacti in AZ. Ya gotta respect Naptown!

If there are no cows...what the heck is a Hoosier?

Ken Loyd
Team 64

[David Kelly]

well, on a side note our team leader has like 40 head of cattle. mostly Milking Shorthorn dairy show cattle.

and for a definition of Hoosier:

Pronunciation: 'hü-zh&r
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps alteration of English dialect hoozer anything large of its kind
Date: 1826
: a native or resident of Indiana -- used as a nickname
- Hoosier adjective


Word History: We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning “Indiana resident” is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including “a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,” reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana.

[Ken Loyd]

Thanks Dave,

I am still not sure what a Hoosier is.

Let's get together in Phoenix in March and maybe I can finally figure it out.

Ken Loyd
Team 64