Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 14:38:47 -0500

From: dorrill[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SELU.EDU

Subject: Re: pickle- low party



I'd like to support Barbara Hill Hudson's message in re piccolo

and note that that usage was not limited to African-American speakers.

My father (1915-1959) was a juke-box operator in Orangeburg, S.C. and

always referred to the machines as piccolos. He was known as the "piccolo

man." His locations were about half white and half black. For us, it was

purely an oral usage: I don't remember ever seeing the word written

down.



George Dorrill

dorrill[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]selu.edu