Date:  Tue, 8 Mar 1994 12:45:57 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Adam's off ox



Larry Horn -- Your explanation of 'Adam's off ox' jibes (not jives) with

the usage common in the maternal side of my immediate ancestors. They lived

in southwestern Arkansas from the 1870s till the 1940s, when the South

Midland diaspora expanded greatly in its geographical distribution. I don't

know the distribution of the term. It should be in DARE I, but I'n not

dere where DARE is.    DMLance