{"id":1877,"date":"2004-01-02T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T21:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2004\/01\/02\/southern-vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:32:05","slug":"southern-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2004\/01\/02\/southern-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the risk of initiating a world-killing trackback death spiral, I refer you to a post over at The Fat Guy’s joint (link no longer works, so use your imagination), where he skillfully inserts the word “tump” into a sentence about lattes.<\/p>\n

I’ve used “tump” as a verb for years without thinking about it, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it in writing. And upon seeing it, I now wonder about its etymology (score another for my “big words” New Year’s resolution!). My guess is that it’s a combination of tumble and bump, but that’s just me. So I went a’googlin’ to see if there was a more scholarly explanation.<\/p>\n

The American Heritage Dictionary’s entry for tump<\/a> seemed to indicate that I wasn’t that far afield, although it was hardly definitive (pun intended!), saying that the etymology was probably<\/em> akin to tumble.<\/p>\n

But what I thought was extremely cool, showing that someone either has a sense of humor, or is pretty dang good at pinpoint marketing, was the sponsoring ad that showed up in the right margin of the page.<\/p>\n

How’d they know that anyone interested in the word “tump” would be from Texas? Brilliant!<\/p>\n

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At the risk of initiating a world-killing trackback death spiral, I refer you to a post over at The Fat Guy’s joint (link no longer works, so use your imagination), where he skillfully inserts the word “tump” into a sentence about lattes. I’ve used “tump” as a verb for years without thinking about it, but… Continue reading Southern Vocabulary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7350,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}