Date:  Sun, 23 Oct 1994 11:50:52 -0400

From:  Bob Lancaster <SLANCASTER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU>

Subject: forty-leven



Shane - My grandparents and parents both used "forty-'leven" as a semi-joking

reference to a lorge but undeterminate number. They were from Delaware and the

Eastern Shore of Maryland, so it was certainly more widely distributed than

Kentucky and Tennessee.



Bob Lancaster

SUNY emeritus. English

slancaster[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]colgate.edu