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"Possum up a Gum Stump"; The one I found was by a foreign band--Irish, I think--so perhaps they didn't know the "correct" term! But I too was thinking that perhaps the p might have gotten added to gum, to make it sound better with stump. Oh--I have never heard the word hombre pronounced without the b. You were joking about that, right?
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Of course I asked him, my curiousity is not tempered with shyness. Like my mother, who uses all kinds of colloquialisms without knowing the etymology, my boss was unaware of its derivation. He was from Central Pennsylvania, peopled with all kinds of culturally diverse (backward?) sects.
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never heard the word hombre pronounced without the b
Depends on how far back you go. It comes from the Latin homin(e).
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He was from Central Pennsylvania, peopled with all kinds of culturally diverse (backward?) sects.
But the Chinese food there is good: With sects you get eggroll.
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sounds like you've had good sects education, TEd...
formerly known as etaoin...
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eta--c'mere a minute; I have something for you... 
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