Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:28:39 -0500

From: Elizabeth Gregory WPODOM1.AGCOM.egregory[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TAEXGW.TAMU.EDU

Subject: Re: pop one's fingers -Reply



FWIW, I am a native Alabamian (born in Montgomery in 1962), and I

don't use this term; I say "snap" instead.



However, the person I remember using the term most (and I don't

remember her ever using "snap") was an African-American woman born in

1902 on a farm near Montgomery. She was a very dear friend of my

family, and I spent the vast majority of my time with her when I was

a child. And she was in fact the person who taught me how to "pop" my

fingers!



I must have used "pop" as a child (I adopted many of the features of

her dialect), but I don't recall the switch to "snap."



Elizabeth Gregory

e-gregory[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]tamu.edu