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|Year=1847 | |||
|Year Number=11 | |||
|Headline=Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice? | |Headline=Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice? | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Location=South | |Location=US South | ||
|Game=Oddball | |Game=Oddball | ||
|Text=<p>In response to an article from the Alabama Reporter belittling the sport of curling, the < | |Text=<p>In response to an article from the Alabama Reporter belittling the sport of curling, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spirit of the Times</span> writer attempts to describe curling to Southerners like this: "What <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">is</span></em> '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. "</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p><em>The <em>Alabama Reporter</em>, a</em>s reprinted in <em><em>Spirit of the Times,</em> </em> January 16, 1847, page 559. </p> | |||
|Comment=<p>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. </p> | |||
<p>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."</p> | |||
|Query=<p>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.</p> | |||
|Submitted by=David Block | |||
|Submission Note=Email of 2/27/2008 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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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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