Date:  Wed, 25 May 1994 08:19:43 EDT

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

Subject: Re: Alabama query



Rudy Troike wrote:



> 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)



I believe that I have heard a white transplant from northern Alabama

(Marshal County, I think) say a form of the expression in a report of what

black people say of other black people. I thought that the expression

(which I remember as "high assed") had something to do with arrogance or

pride, but I'll keep my ears open.











Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

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