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Re: Duck Duck Lucy (was Lucy x2)
> Kylie wrote:
>> Yeah, but who's Lucy?
> and paul wrote:
>>> wasn't she the fossilized human they unearthed in the fertile crescent?
>>> *ducking*
> and I write:
> Why are you ducking? I mean I think more of a "juke" or a "side-step" would
should I go with the gerund form "juking" (rhymes with "puking")
or would the simple verb and/or noun "juke" suffice?
P.S. Regional Note: Gullah, the English-based Creole language spoken by
people of African ancestry off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina,
retains a number of words from the West African languages brought over by
slaves. One such word is juke, ³bad, wicked, disorderly,² the probable
source of the English word juke. Used originally in Florida and then chiefly
in the Southeastern states, juke (also appearing in the compound juke joint)
was an African-American word meaning a roadside drinking establishment that
offers cheap drinks, food, and music for dancing and often doubles as a
brothel. ³To juke² is to dance, particularly at a juke joint or to the music
of a jukebox whose name, no longer regional and having lost the connotation
of sleaziness, contains the same word.
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