Date:  Tue, 24 May 1994 22:10:09 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Alabama query



    The diversity of Alabama, which no dialectologist has ever doubted,

is being amply confirmed. This one is for Alabamans, and anyone else who

may be familiar with the term. A colleague of mine from northern Alabama

passed on the following query:

    From his mother's generation, in Walker County, "high assing" meant

"going out and making a spectacle of yourself" or just "going out on the town".

Is this expression still alive and well? Is it used elsewhere?

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