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In Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, next door to Maine, there is a "Skedaddle Ridge."
I was told that it got its name from the fact that some citizens of Maine skedaddled across the border to avoid being pressed into military service during one of the early American conflicts. I thought it was the War of Independence but it must have been the Civil War.
The name was mentioned often during the early 70's as new skedaddlers settled in the county.
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Yet again, there are the purely artificial words, e. g., sockdolager, hunky-dory, scalawag, guyascutis, spondulix, slumgullion, rambunctious, scrumptious, to skedaddle, to absquatulate and to exfluncticate. - H. L. Mencken, The American Language (1921) link
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Yes, American language, skedou, skedaddle, cowboys in the the saddle.
Or soldiers if you like.
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You can probably blame Mark Twain for some of it.
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That a music group? Level 42 and 23 skidoo?
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I would presume many words have different meanings in different parts of the country, as we all know. Here in the midwest
skedaddle means to move quickly, as in "Let's skedaddle before she finds us at home".
Actually, listening to CNN and the like, we are now considered the 'high plains' and not the midwest. The more things change the more they remain the same.
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Actually, listening to CNN and the like, we are now considered the 'high plains' and not the midwest. The more things change the more they remain the same. where are you from, Luke? I always liked "The Great Plains" myself, sounds somehow more appropriate for those beautiful plains.
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I would presume many words have different meanings in different parts of the country, as we all know. Here in the midwest
skedaddle means to move quickly, as in "Let's skedaddle before she finds us at home". Just wondering, and knowing that word meanings do shift from time to time and place to place, can you skedaddle towards something or just away? In your example you are leaving a place anticipating someone's arrival. Could you, e.g., skedaddle over to the pool hall, without being explicit about where or why you were leaving some place?
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to answer 'etaoin', I love the plains too. I actually enjoy
deserts better, however, I am from Nebraska: the great plains.
We have the largest underwater aquifer to counteract the sand hills, which are great for grazing, (at least Ted Turner seems to think so, as he is buying up all of the acres there he can get
his hands on -for whatever reason). I was referring to the fact that we used to be called the "midwest", but the TV weather people seem to be using that term for Ohio, Illinois, and that area whereas N,Dak,S.Dak,Neb,Kan, etc, are now the great plains.
I don't mind the term actually. We have corn (Cornhuskers notwithstanding), Kansas has wheat and so on. So thanks for the comment.
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