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Shauna: 00:00 Welcome
to bunny trails, a whimsical adventure of idioms and other turns of phrase. I'm
Shanua Harrison
Dan: 00:05 and
I'm Dan Pugh. Usually we delve into the origin and history of one specific
idiom or other turn of phrase and discuss how it's been used over time. But
occasionally we like to take a group of phrases that doesn't have enough
information for one show, but we give you a little bit of background about each
of them. We usually do this through a theme, including our past themes like
weddings and theaters. This week we're coming to you on location from the
beautiful borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to talk about American civil war
slang. The audio quality of this episode just be forewarned might be a little
different. We're sitting in a civil war era house and the street is very close,
unlike our usual recording studio, and so you will hear some background noise
from time to time,
Shauna: 00:52 maybe
even a few tours or something like that going by. Yeah, so it was like 1860s
they weren't real worried about recording acoustic quality, so you know.
Dan: 01:05 The
Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1st through third 1863 in and around the
town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and this was by the union and the confederate
forces during the American civil war. The battle involved the largest number of
casualties of the entire war and is often described as the wars turning point
basically is the bloodiest battle of the bloodiest war in American history.
Shauna: 01:28 It's
crazy, like it's it really intense experience to be here and see some of this
stuff firsthand.
Dan: 01:33 Yeah,
it absolutely has been, but enough downers. Let's jump right into the phrases.
So the first one I'm going to use is come the gum game, and this is a phrase
that I've never heard before.
Dan: 01:44 I
think it's completely fallen out of favor now. During the civil war Private
James Snell wrote in his diary, "the rebels tried to come a gum game on
us. The next entry indicates that the confederates were trying to make snells
regiment believe that they are retreating when they were not. This is by a
paper from Jay Monhagan called civil war slang and humor. Monhagan notes that
this is one of the many idioms used by soldiers in the civil war, which is
completely evaporated from modern speech.
Dan: 02:13 The
Oxford English dictionary defines gum game or come the gum game as "a
slang or a trick or a dodge". And we'll see this... we see this oftentimes
it with phrases in any case that the general public uses the phrase one way and
uh, soldiers use it in a slightly different way. Yes. Especially during war.
And we'll see a couple more examples of that as well. But here it's, it's still
kind of the same thing, uh, a trick or a dodge. But for soldiers they used it
specifically when someone was, was intentionally trying to pull the wool over
their eyes so to speak,
Dan: 02:50 Right.
Whereas in the general population, there didn't have to be malicious intent for
it to be used. Gotcha. The first time we saw it was in 1840 so it was a
relatively newer phrase that we'd heard. And when someone used the phrase, and
it's specifically "I've come the gum game over you" in a speech. We
also see it in several other, uh, examples throughout the civil war timeframe.
We see it in the Idaho World in the May 26th, 1866 edition. This is out of
Idaho city, Idaho. And that was a territory, not a state at that point. When it
says, "a speck of nose, like a wart head as bald as a squash and no place
to hitch a waterfall, a mouth just suited to come the gum game and chew milk.
Oh dear. You should hear her sing. "
Dan: 03:40 So
they're talking about a person who, uh, who has a velvety voice but as also
well-suited to get you to go along and to trick you and do get you to be very
manipulative or influential, whichever way the person wanted to go. In 1871,
Edward Eggleston in the Hoosier Schoolmaster wrote, "now looky here, you
don't come know gum games over me". Nice. And we see it in the Libson
Star, which is out of the Dakota territory, September 18th, 1885 where they
said "they tried to come the gum game on me down in Pennsylvania, but I
came out ahead." Nice. I don't believe there was much love loss between
territories in the West that were not a part of the United States at the time
and duplicitous efforts of Americans, which is sort of been our calling card
for the entirety of the existence of the nation.
Dan: 04:40 So
in the Dallas Daily Herald, November 20th, 1886 "he got it and the two skinned
out, the grocer set down in a tub of onions to think it over. And when he
became satisfied that it was a gum game to beat him and that the two men were
confederates, he rose up and kicked a dozen washboards sky high and mark the
price of strawberries up 4 cents per quart". Wow. So in this case, uh, he
got, he got played and then got frustrated about it once he realized it. Now
the phrase seems to have fallen out of favor in the early 19 hundreds with one
of the last instances I could find in print coming in January, 1910 this is
January eight out of the Coleville examiner, which is Coleville Washington,
"isn't it? Some kind of gum game to get money out of you. Gum Game? Gum
game on me? Bowser!", And this, they were Bowser was the one talking and
asking if this was some kind of a gum game and the other one was incredulous
that someone could trick them in any way.
Dan: 05:36 Gotcha.
All right, so the next phrase I want to talk about is acknowledge the corn, and
this is a, this was used during the civil war and there's a really fascinating
phrase. It means to confess or acknowledge a charge, imputation or failure.
Sometimes we see it acknowledge the corn. Sometimes we see it, admit the corn.
Sometimes we see a confess the corn. This is a rocky beginning story, but the
best that we have is from a newspaper where they were recounting the likely
origin story of this. Okay. This phrase is said to have originated in Congress.
And this, according to a story in the Pascagoula Democrat star out of
Mississippi dated November 3rd, 1882 it is said to have originated in 1828
during the session of Congress. So Andrew Stewart, which is a congressman from
Pennsylvania, claimed Kentucky and several other states were sending their
haystacks, cornfields and fodder to his state.
Dan: 06:34 The
Congressman from Kentucky, Charles Wycliffe took issue with this and said they
don't send those things. So when somebody asks what they did send, he said, we
send hugs and we send animals. And a typical congressional conversation ensued
where they were back and forth about different things. Um, and where Wycliff
admitted that the hogs are fed about 30 bushels of corn each to fatten them up.
Uh, which, uh, then as Congress is much to this day, it's a showmanship and
brinksmanship thing and not about actually getting anything done. So at that
point he says, "then you put those 30 bushels into the shape of a hog and
make it walk off the eastern market." So at this point, the Kentucky
Congressman realized he didn't want to keep arguing more and he says, "Mr
Speaker, I acknowledge the corn. "
Dan: 07:20 So
since then I acknowledge the corn and later confessed the corn has been
admitting to a lie or being caught in a false falsehood. I will say, I looked
up to verify who all these people were and that they were actually in Congress
at the time and they were, I mean, so there's validity. These were all the
actual people from, from Congress that were talking at the time. So the origin
was 1828 according to that story in 1839 we see it out of the Daily Picayune in
New Orleans, "we were certain it was not Dutch and was an error saying it
was scotch and we acknowledge the corn". We see it again. It just a year
later, 1840 and the daily pennant out of St Louis. July 14th issue, "David
Johnson acknowledged the corn and said that he was drunk." I've never
acknowledged the corn about being drunk. But can you imagine trying to say the
word acknowledge while you were drunk? Like if you were in the moment
acknowledging it. <Drunken inaudible slurring> and they're all like,
yeah, you're drunk, we know. In 1842, in the spirit of times that of
Philadelphia, March 16th, "your honor, I confess the corn, I was royally
drunk". Are we seeing a pattern here?
Dan: 08:29 We
do see it occasionally used to admit that someone was drunk, but they're saying
I was lying to you. I was drunk. Not... You couldn't just admit that you
couldn't just confess the corn and then they would know you meant you were
drunk. And then 1846 out of the New York Herald, June 27th, "the evening
mirror very naively, comes out and acknowledges the corn" Which I love
that because I do that. The I get, the more I look at it in a, uh, a mirror and
I'm like, Ugh, who's that old guy?
Dan: 09:02 The
Weekly Comet out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and this is July 23rd, 1884.
"So many things have been done of late to entitle us to metropolitan
notoriety that it is high time. Our contemporary should acknowledge the corn. I
believe not a very spacious city hall have sufficient dimensions to contain the
number one engine. "
Dan: 09:21 This
is a frustration here where we're trying to use tax dollars to build a thing
for the ffire brigade. And they are, the author is unhappy in this editorial
for that. The daily dispatch, 1865, March 28th, this is out of Richmond,
Virginia. "There's no use in blazing up and calling him names and
threatening blood and thunder. We may as well confess the corn. The old
gentleman has been too smart for us and we are mere children in his hands.
Wonder why he would charge us to take us back to his family and educate us until
we'd arrive at years of discretion." And I like this because threatening
blood and thunder is a phrase that I want to look more into but haven't yet.
Dan: 10:03 So,
uh, and I, it's very fun to see how many idioms and phrases like that are used
in, um, in print.
Dan: 10:12 You
know, so this case, we have threatening blood and thunder. Blazing up, which of
course is not what that means these days. And then confess the corn all in just
two sentences.
Dan: 10:24 From
company that deals in ice distribution, which was a huge concept in the late 18
hundreds before, you know, we had freezers and such. This is the Grand Rapids
Herald out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1892 July 2nd this is a, an advertisement
for the AB Knolson company. "We do sleep. Yes we do. But it is in the
witching hour of night. How exhaustive it must be to never sleep. One must
naturally get very tired. We must acknowledge the corn, but nevertheless we
want your ice trade, your coal trade." Also Limes, Cement and other
things. Nice. Yeah. So obviously at some point they'd used an advertisement
campaign saying that we never sleep. So now they're kind of turning that and
use the phrase, the witching hour, which I love.
Dan: 11:07 And
saying that, that we acknowledge the corn, wheat, we do sleep, but it's when
you're asleep too, so it's no big deal. And then out of the Day Book, which is
Chicago, Illinois, October 3rd, 1916. "But why do teachers ask such
questions, why not eliminate all prejudices and acknowledge the corn even if
you're wrong?" So this was a, a person who is talking about who those that
are teaching, uh, and are not showing, basically they're accusing them of being
pro German or pro immigrant. Because even back then teachers were still a
bastion for equality and fighting for like, no, we should treat our, all of our
students the same. And of course when you have privilege, any sort of equality
can look like, uh, discrimination against you or you feel like it is anyway. So
a, in this case, uh, many of the white people in the community were very
frustrated that the teachers were, were using, were, you know, treating the
immigrants the same and there were German immigrants in the area. So they were
saying they were pro German anti-American in this case. So they're just saying,
well why don't they just admit that they're wrong. Well, because they're not
wrong. That's why they're not going to do that. You racist.
Shauna: 12:18 That's
so funny. You know, my family, um, arrive, well, part of my family arrived here
in the United States from Germany around this time actually. Uh, well I was not
far. Uh, but yeah, like, uh, over the ocean in a boat, you know, that whole
gig. Uh, but you know, nobody looks at me and calls me German these days.
Dan: 12:38 Yeah,
that's fair. Yeah, that's a whole nother story that we could talk about, but
it's a bit of a bummer. So we won't...
Dan: 12:46 So
this phrase seems to have fallen out of favor in the late 19 teens with only a
few examples in the 1920s. And most of those being advertising puns and they're
directed at an older audience like this one in 1925 from the evening star out
of Washington DC that it was, "She hated to acknowledge the corn. So goes
the old saying and few indeed like to confess the corn." And this is a,
um, advertisement for a cream that you put on corns of, on the feet.
Dan: 13:17 Specifically,
it's looking at a slightly older audience and using a phrase that the older
audience would understand, but maybe the younger people wouldn't get, but
that's all right. They're not trying to sell to the younger people.
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Dan: 14:27 so
the next phrase I want to talk about is to see the elephant. This refers to
gaining experience of the world, oftentimes at significant costs.
Shauna: 14:35 Ah,
Gotcha. I thought maybe it was like a some sort of rejoinder to like the
elephant in the room or you know.
Dan: 14:40 No,
but they did come out of common root experiences. Oh cool. So this phrase has
been used as see the lion since the 16 hundreds like this example from John
Smith. In The true travels, adventures and observations of Captaine J. Smith 1630.
"After, one Master John Bull.., with divers of his friends, went to see
the Lyons" In this case they're talking about the lions in the tower of
London because people kept lions there. So you went to go see the lions and
have that specific experience. To see the elephant seems to come into popular
use in the 18 hundreds the Oxford English dictionary has the first attestation
in 1835 by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in Georgia scenes, characters, incidents
and etc in the first half of the republic by a native Georgian.
Dan: 15:33 Augustus
is obviously not following the rule of thumb that we have now set and should be
retroactively applied to all books of the 18 hundreds that you can have a long
name or a long title. But my goodness, you can't have, yeah,
Dan: 15:48 In
his book he writes, "That's sufficient, as Tom Haynes said when he saw the
elephant. " In this case and many outside of the war, see, the elephant
was to see life the world or the sites as of a large city or to get the
experience of life or to gain knowledge by experience. Gotcha. So in 1857, work
by Orlando White in Quinland or varieties in American life, "the Fox and
crow is one of the most famous sites in New York. It has never missed by the
country moon or the foreigner who is searching after the elephant." Huh,
cool. As early as the Mexican American war, See the elephant was specifically
used to mean to see battle among soldiers and military members. This was a
common phrase during the civil war as well continuing at least until the Vietnam
War. As Tom Dalzell wrote in Vietnam War Slang, A dictionary on historical
principles.
Dan: 16:38 He
has an entry that says "Elephant: combat. Usually in the phrase seeing the
elephant meaning to have experienced combat." Okay, and this makes sense
from an intuitive standpoint. See the elephant is about gaining life
experiences and when you are in a war, the biggest experience is going to
combat, especially wars like you know the civil war and Vietnam and world wars
one and two. When a large portion of the people fighting in those wars that
they did, they did not sign up for that. Like that was not theier thing. They
might've been part of the militia, but they weren't, they weren't looking at as
the military as a career path or something. They were drafted or forced into it
because of what in the case of the civil war an invasion of the homeland or uh,
you know, world war one or two where, you know, we had to do something.
Shauna: 17:26 Yeah.
Well and definitely a lot of them, like the civil war at least I noticed a lot
of them signed up to avoid, uh, being the draft or things like that because
they continue to give extra benefits if you signed up on your own.
Dan: 17:38 Right.
Yeah. Well I would argue that whether you were enlisted to avoid the draft or
you were drafted, you were still coerced into it. And while that's not
necessarily a bad thing, don't mean to imply that, uh, you know, fighting for
your country and for people's rights is a bad thing. I'm very happy that people
are willing to do that. Um, but I would say it's disingenuous to say that if
your draft number was five and so you went ahead and enlisted. That's uh, that
that was a anything but a coerced move that was a, Oh, I've now seen what this
looks like and I guess of these options, this is what I'm doing. They paid
during the civil war, they paid bounties is what they called it to get people
to sign up. So basically what we would call now a signing bonus, they call it a
bounty.
Dan: 18:23 There's
even a civil war movie actually called seeing the Elephant and American civil
war movie “Seeing The Elephant an Indie film feature centerpiece of the popular
Wisconsin tourist attraction, The Fiery Trial Exhibit, which runs daily at the
Civil War Museum in Kenosha. A term the soldiers used to describe active duty,
Seeing The Elephant, manipulates the senses and delivers its experience in the
round, historically, close up. The newest permanent addition to The Fiery Trial
exhibit, Seeing The Elephant, is an exceptional presentation and a Wisconsin
attraction that is NOT to be missed!".
Dan: 18:57 Yeah.
If I ever make my way to Kenosha, Wisconsin, I'll definitely check out the
civil war museum there. Outside of the war though, the phrase continues to be
used in the general life experience way in The Weekly Roundabout, which was out
of Frankfort, Kentucky, April 17th, 1880. "Logan McKee went to Louisville
Tuesday morning to see the elephant. He saw it and says it was a big one and
got home later part of the week." This is a perfect example of our, this
is a perfect example of our natural need to share. This is a piece from a whole
page of status updates, uh, posted in the newspaper. So I just want people to
remember this whenever we talk about social media. Social media is just our
current form of sharing. We used to do that in so many ways and looking through
old newspapers tells me two things about current society that is no different
than past society. 1., we are bitterly, bitterly, bitterly rude and disgusting
in our politics in this country since the beginning of this country and 2.
social media is not changing much, we literally have communicated by posting
inane and banal things for the entirety of our written existence. We just did
it newspapers before and now we do it, you know, then we did it on chat rooms
and now we're doing it in, um, social media posts on walls and you know,
peoples spaces and things like that.
Dan: 20:24 All
right. So back to this, another example from Frankfort, Kentucky. This time in
the Frankfurt Roundabout, June 16th, 1894 " An elephant was to swim the
Kentucky River. And the frankfurters were anxious to see how the specimen of
the pachyderm tribe would perform the aquatic feat. Judge Nuttle was among the
number who wanted to see it, and he announced that the court would adjourn for
that purpose. There was an important case in court and the proposition was
objected to, but the judge was inflexible and heedless of all protestation
adjourned to the court to see the elephant swim the river. So they say.".
Dan: 20:59 Yes,
and this is from a response to that where they say "there's no, they say
business about judge nettle adjourning the court in this city so that he could
go down and see the elephants when the river, but it's an actual fact. He gave
his a reason that he was an old man and might not have another opportunity of
witnessing such a site. Therefore he did not care to miss it.".
Dan: 21:22 They
wanted to keep, you know, doling out justice, but the judge was all like,
there's an elephant and you know the phrase, see the elephant. I want to see
the elephant. Literally. So we're going to adjourn so I can go see this. And we
see it again, maybe the last time that I saw it in print was 1907 in the Idaho
Republican out of Blackfoot, Idaho. This was the August 16th edition. "Mr
and Mrs Wilco went to Idaho falls on Thursday of last week to see the
elephant." Another example of a status update that was posted in a
newspaper. They really start to fall out of favor in written communications in
the early 1920s.
Dan: 21:59 Today,
the only place we really see the phrase now is when speaking of seeing combat,
and even that's relatively rare, but it is still used in, in some military
circles. Gotcha. Okay. Moving on now, Chris Muscato, a professor of history at
the University of Northern Colorado writes of soldiers during the civil war.
"They had to be fit as a fiddle at all times in good shape because they
never knew when they would see the elephant or witness battle." So we
talked about seeing the elephant, but now I want to transition to fit as a
fiddle. So fit as a fiddle according to the Oxford English dictionary means
"in good form or condition". And the OED shows it being first
attested in the early 16 hundreds. So similar phrases at the same time,
including fine as a farthing fiddle and fine as a fiddle. But even though the
phrase was around beforehand, it was such a common term heard during the civil
war that we'd be remiss not to talk about it here.
Dan: 22:52 Uh,
and in the book, Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself by Maxine
Anderson. She writes, "know your civil war slang". This is one of
those little pop out boxes, you know, outside of the print. So she's got stuff
that she's writing about and then there's just this little thing on the side
because she used a phrase and she said, "Know your civil war slang: fit as
a fiddle, meaning in good shape, healthy, feeling good". We also see it
defined in Life In Civil War America by Michael Varhola, "fit as a fiddle:
in good shape".
Dan: 23:19 So
another interesting fact from that same book though is a statement on the
phrase "war is hell". This is what a Michael Varella writes, "So
too many words we use to describe the events of the civil war have their
origins in the years following the conflict. For example, Union Major General
William Tecumseh Sherman is widely known as having stated war is hell. However,
he did not say this until 1879 some 14 years the war ended.".
Dan: 23:46 Yeah.
So I've heard that war is hell, you know, came from the civil war, but it just
came from a civil war general who said it after the civil war.
Dan: 23:56 Right.
Uh, same with the phrase, uh, live free or die for death is not the worst of
evils. And that's a major general John Stark. And he who is, I am a, I am a
direct relation. Um, but anyway, so John John Stark, uh, had wrote that
actually in a, he couldn't attend a gathering of his soldiers, far after the
revolutionary wars, oftentimes attested to being a revolutionary war phrase,
but it is not, and it was in a letter that he wrote to his troops because he
was too ill and, uh, convalescent to be able to attend a reunion party with
them.
Dan: 24:33 So
he wrote a letter and that's, it was in that letter where he wrote that phrase,
live free or die for death is not the worst of evils.
Dan: 24:41 Yeah.
All right. So even the Gettysburg military park, the and the National Park
Service, uh, getting the action with their booklet, the life of a civil war
soldier, which is a student field program. Uh, in fact, we have a copy of it,
uh, here. They have a civil war slang section in the booklet, which has
numerous common phrases at the time, including fit as a fiddle defined as in
good shape or healthy. Cool. So these are just a few examples of fit as a
fiddle being used during the civil war. We've already done this phrase once,
uh, so I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time on it, but because it was
used so often during the civil war, I definitely wanted to include a couple of
other things I found specific to that.
Dan: 25:18 I'm
going to read a little piece from a paper by Jay Monhagan called civil war
slang and humor written in 1957 and I quoted this earlier as well, but here's
another section. "A great many of the slang expressions of a hundred years
ago have changed a little but are still recognizable. Thus, when a modern
soldier says 'liquidate" a Civil War veteran would say
"salivate." To squeal on a companion was called "blowing on him.".
New
Speaker: 25:42 "The
Civil War expression "to run against a stump" is more commonly worded
today as "to run against a snag." In like manner, a studious cadet at
West Point in the 1850's was called a "dig" instead of the more modem
"grind." ... The "grapevine," as understood in Civil War
days, has survived, although latter day service men prefer "latrine
humor" or "scuttle-butt."
Dan: 26:07 And
here is a note from Chris Muscato, at the University of Northern Colorado
Imagine that you're in an army camp. People are shouting for various objects,
and often they'll use slang terms to describe daily items. A soldier looking
for bark juice is hunting for liquor, maybe to wash down those sheet iron
crackers, the hardtack soldiers ate. After all, a cup of rio (coffee) could be
scarce as hen's teeth when rations were low. Others soldiers might be preparing
for battle, filling the beehive (knapsack) with hornets (bullets). Be careful
if someone mentions having an Arkansas toothpick, however; that's just a really
big knife. That person might be loaded for bear, armed to the teeth and ready
to pick a fight.
Dan: 26:46 And
I will put this here, just as a side note, the sheet iron crackers, right. So a
note about the hardtack, the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum has an
actual piece of hardtack on display from the battle in 1863 so it was picked up
shortly after the battle and had been preserved and there were a lot of places
in Gettysburg cause the whole town was involved in the battle.
Dan: 27:09 But
there are a lot of places that people were using as kind of like tourist
things. And so they, this had been shown off and was eventually donated to the
museum. So there's no mold on it. There's no evidence of degradation. Uh, it's
like Twinkies for the civil war era.
Dan: 27:23 They'll
last forever and it'll give you calories I guess. But I'll pass, I'm going to
put it, I'm going to put a picture on the, and so you can take a look at it,
but it's very interesting. I can totally see why they call them sheet iron
crackers too. Cause if they are as hard as they look for, Huh. Yeah. I mean
it's in the name. Hardtack yeah. Well, I love phrases that come out of wars
because there tends to be a mixing of many different backgrounds and dialects
and these are, you know, from people spending time together, people that would
have never spent time together on their own, but now they're all thrust into a
common situation.
Dan: 27:57 And
that leads to a lot of melding of languages. But despite the language changes
that happened during times of war, we have to remember that for those men and
women language was the least of their thoughts. The American civil war was the
deadliest war in American history with various accounts, but 620 to 720,000
deaths, and that's just shy of all the deaths and all the other wars America's
ever fought in combined. Slavery was at the heart of the war. And as a result
of the war, slavery was outlawed in the United States. Brothers killed
brothers, fathers killed sons. It was not a pretty picture, but it is part of
the American history. We must remember that whenever a powerful group tries to
take away basic dignity from another group of humans, there are still other
humans that will fight for those rights, and if we don't stand up to protect
those kinds of human rights during times of peace, it will inevitably lead to
violence.
Dan: 28:51 Well,
that about wraps us up for today. Thank you for joining us. Don't forget to
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Shauna: 29:15 if
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