Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 12:25:50 CST

From: Joan Hall jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: Re: Forty-eleven



re forty-eleven: Take a look at DARE, where quotes go back to 1860. The

phrase seems pretty widely scattered; I know it from the West too. Though

some of the quotes spell it forty-eleven, I'll bet the folks who use it

always say forty-leven.

Joan Hall, DARE