Date:  Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:24:57 -0500
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Trouble Hunters on WHEELS

Someone writes (of the arachaic slang expression WHEEL 'bicycle')

>This might be a loan translation of
>German Rad 'wheel,' probably used in
>German-speaking Iowa a century ago
>just as it's still used today in
>Germany for 'bicycle.'

Maybe. But my WHEEL 'bicycle' ancestors were not German, nor were the
resident in German communities. Nor do Farmer and Henley localize it to Iowa.

**********I wonder if DARE has any info on this?*********
**********If not, maybe RDS has something in its files that JS can tell us
about when he returns from his honeymoon?*********