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Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | US SouthUS South |
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| Text | In response to an article from the Alabama Reporter belittling the sport of curling, the Spirit of the Times writer attempts to describe curling to Southerners like this: "What is 'Curling,' eh? Why, did you ever play 'bass ball,' or 'goal,' or 'hook-em-snivy,' on the ice? Well, curling is not like either. In curling, sides are chosen; each player has a bat, one end of which is turned up, somewhat like a plough-handle, with which to knock a ball on ice without picking it up as in the game of foot-ball, which curling resembles." Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. "
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| Sources | The Alabama Reporter, as reprinted in Spirit of the Times, January 16, 1847, page 559. |
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| Comment | David Block explains, 2/27/2008: "Clearly, the writer had curling confused with ice hockey, which was itself an embryonic sport that the time." Or maybe he confused it with ice-hurling, which actually employs a ball. From Richard Hershberger, 12/8/09: "What makes this so interesting is that the response speaks of "bass ball" played on ice. This is a decade before such games were commonly reported, suggesting that the [later] practice by organized clubs was borrowed from older, informal play on ice." Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Could gentle readers please enlighten Protoball on the nature and fate of "hook-em-snivy," in AL or the South or elsewhere? I asked Mister Google about the word, and he rather less helpfully and rather more cryptically than usual, said this: "My Quaker grandmother, born in Maryland in 1823, used [the word] in my hearing when she was about seventy years old. She said that it was a barbarism in use among common people and that we must forget it. Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | David Block |
| Submission Note | Email of 2/27/2008 |
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1847.11 Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice?"
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