February 20th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
The Free-Tonguing Cowboys Of The Old West
I was paging through Pep Comics #11 from 1941 when a very strange page fell under my wondering eyes. Free-tonguin’ cowboys? Wait, what? Of course if you knew the right cowboy you could order you up a Brokeback Mountain Tossed Salad in the old west, but surely the comic books of 1941 wouldn’t be acknowledging that?
It turns out to have been, still somewhat oddly, a story about verbal shifts during linguistic borrowing from Mexican Spanish:
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I don’t know ’bout your neck of the woods, but around these parts if you said to your buddy that you were hungry, and was a fixin’ to visit a “coosie” for something to chaw on, you might get a wink and a sly grin…
Seems to be a very malleable word; where I come from it means “pussy”, but in the part of Red State Heck where I am now, very proper women use to to refer to the zippered foam item that keeps chilled beer bottles cold. Go figure!
Er… and what are they taking about out your way, when your buddy tells you that he saw the first “cooter” of spring down by the local swimming hole?
Do you ever wonder if maybe he’s been mistaken, and more than likely he’s observed a “red-eared slider”?