Date:  Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:21:36 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: milk can dinner



>Verrry interesting for a Texan to use a "pail."  Aren't Texans supposed to

>fall within the old S. Midland group, hence bucket people rather than pail

>people? In KY in the 50's lunch bucket was common, but only for grown-ups.

>Kids used lunch boxes or bags. I guess some might have used the Shedd's peanut

>butter buckets, but I don't remember any at Penile Elementary School.



I would eat or drink something that came in a pail, but would feed or water

animals or carry dirt in a bucket. My father's mother's family came from

Georgia and North Alabama.



Interesting note for Central Georgia: people in the building industry

refer to the big scoop on a backhoe or a caterpillar as a "bucket." By the

way, around here an earth mover is called (and spelled) a "dozier" (with a

voiced alveolopalatal fricative) and spelled that way. I have always said

"bull dozer."











Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu