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title:Western Lore and Language : A Dictionary for Enthusiasts of the American West
author:Clark, Thomas L.
publisher:University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13:9780874805109
ebook isbn13:9780585132075
language:English
subjectEnglish language--West (U.S.)--Slang--Dictionaries, West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--Dictionaries, Americanisms--West (U.S.)--Dictionaries.
publication date:1996
lcc:PE2970.W4C58 1996eb
ddc:427/.978
subject:English language--West (U.S.)--Slang--Dictionaries, West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--Dictionaries, Americanisms--West (U.S.)--Dictionaries.
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Western Lore and Language
A Dictionary for Enthusiasts of the American West
Thomas L. Clark
University of Utah Press
Salt Lake City
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Copyright 1996 by
the University of Utah Press
All rights reserved
Printed on acid-free paper
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Clark, Thomas L.
Picture 2Western lore and languague : a dictionary for
enthusiasts of the American West / Thomas L. Clark.
Picture 3Picture 4p. cm.
Picture 5Includes bibliographical references.
Picture 6ISBN 0-87480-510-4 (alk. paper) 1.
1. English languageWest (U.S.)SlangDictionaries.
2. West (U.S.Social life and customsDictionaries.
3. AmericanismsWest (U.S.)Dictionaries.
I. Title.
PE2970.W4C58 1996
427'.978dc20 96-12089 CIP
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Contents
Preface
vii
Dictionary
1
Bibliography
263
Illustration credits
265

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Preface
What Is The West?
It is a geographical region if you are a citizen of the Mountain, Pacific, or Alaskan time zones. It is a state of mind if you are a cowboy, a surfer, a climber, a logger, a computer maker, a movie fan, a Pacific fisherman, an avid skier, a citizen of the Pacific Rim. The English words that came into the language in western North America are like those that enter the language in any geographical region: the borrowings and neologisms are determined by the land, the occupations, and pastimes of the inhabitants. The needs of the people living with unique encounters of vegetation, landscape, and fauna require words like sego lily, wash, and roadrunner. The occupations of westerners require new words like Silicon Valley, skid row, outrider. The pastimes of westerners have required the adoption of new meanings like malibu board, ace in the hole, Iditarod. Encounters with other cultures give us new English words like fry bread, arroyo, avocado.
The West can represent wideopen spaces, freedom of mind, freedom of expression, freedom of action, even the Marlboro Man imageall reflected in the language of the West. Westerners seem to relish the notion that they are less restricted than people from other parts of the country. They generally are enamored of states' rights, freedom from gun control, and the ability to move anywhere at anytime. The Sagebrush Rebellion gets enough press from time to time to let others know that westerners will allow themselves a certain amount of aggravation, but the limit can be reached by centralized bureaucracies, whether emanating from Washington, D.C., or Ottawa.
Talking "western" means using the words that have come into the English language in western North America. The area includes the region of the Mountain time zone: Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas.
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The rest of the West is California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, and Alaska. Many speakers of English who wound up in Alaska came from the ranches and oil fields of the western states.
Now, Hawaii is the westernmost state, but the English spoken in the islands is heavily peppered with Hawaiian, Asian, and Polynesian words (aloha, wahine, haole, luau, mele kalikimaka).Should they be included within the scope of "western talk"? No. Western talk is restricted to English used in western North America.
Texas covers both the south and the west. (Some folks who live near El Paso say that Texas covers most of the habitable universe.) Separating west Texas talk from south Texas talk is my chore as editor to deal with. Making the choice for inclusion or exclusion comes from long experience with dialects, advice from others in the field, survey of the sources, and, finally, the domain of the word.
Border Spanish (Tex-Mex, Tejana, Spanglish) would certainly flavor a book of western talk, as would California Mellow, Old West (such as stagecoach, early mining, sawmill vocabularies), or New West (such as vocabularies associated with Esalen, western skiing, vineyard cultivation, Hollywood, surfing, enviromania, Silicon Valley, Valley Girl vapidity, Pacific Rim).
All the words and phrases included in this work originated in the West or are associated mainly with the West. The following entries (1) originated in the West (forty-niner, Silicon Valley, skookum, quaking aspen), (2) are used mainly in the West (
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