btw. i love college professors, they always have time for strangers asking stranger questions even if they can't help much.

From:
Robert Morgan <****@cornell.edu>

Subject:
Sigodlin

Date:
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:09:24 -0400

To:
<dodyskin@**************>

As best I could find out sigodlin is a contraction of "side goggling," very
common in the Southern Appalachians in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Robert
Morgan