Date:  Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:05:41 -0400

From:  "Bethany K. Dumas, U of Tennessee" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.UTK.EDU>

Subject: Re: cheap folks



Rudy T. said:



> Rest assured that "chinchy" was the only form I heard or used growing

> up at the southern tip of Texas. I've seen "chintzy" in print, and perhaps

> heard it, though I can't recall from whom or where. I suppose "chintzy", on

> the face of it, offers some etymological sense, but I always thought it was

> a mistaken version of "chinchy" (Don Lance and I know that South Texas English

> is the purest to be found). A related form used there is "pinchy", usually

> pronounced with a somewhat Hispanicized raised /iy/.



Me too!



Bethany

(who is not from the southern tip, but near there. I was born in Corpus

Christi, lived in the area bounded by CC, SA, Houston, Beaumont my first

22 years)



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>     Rest assured that "chinchy" was the only form I heard or used growing

> up at the southern tip of Texas. I've seen "chintzy" in print, and perhaps

> heard it, though I can't recall from whom or where. I suppose "chintzy", on

> the face of it, offers some etymological sense, but I always thought it was

> a mistaken version of "chinchy" (Don Lance and I know that South Texas English

> is the purest to be found). A related form used there is "pinchy", usually

> pronounced with a somewhat Hispanicized raised /iy/.

>

>     --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)

>