Timeline for What does “on’ry” mean in “I Wonder As I Wander”?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 3:49 | history | protected | user140086 | ||
| Dec 13, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | Airymouse | Caveat "It is quite widely accepted in the academic community that Niles's material is unreliable. A number of songs, including some very lovely ones, that he claimed to have "collected" are known to have been written by him. Some he claims to have found in fragmentary form ("I Wonder as I Wander" for example), others he wrote from scratch ("Venezuela"). None of the scholars with whom I exchange information take his Ballad Book seriously."( Sandy Paton) So you have to entertain the possibility that "on'ry" meant ordinary, because Niles needed a 2-syllable word and couldn't come up with one. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 18:55 | answer | added | SherBeth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 17:40 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2014 at 15:26 | answer | added | R Reinhard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 16:49 | vote | accept | rajah9 | ||
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| Dec 1, 2013 at 7:33 | comment | added | Kris | onry Eye dialect spelling of ornery, representing Southern United States English. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onry | |
| Dec 1, 2013 at 2:53 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | I think not. Long before 1933 "ornery" was an independent word having only a historical connection with "ordinary". That word is is still alive in Jennings' 1973 recording. But what JJN recorded in 1933 was the same pronunciation of "ordinary" which evolved sixty or seventy years earlier into "ornery". | |
| Dec 1, 2013 at 2:30 | comment | added | rajah9 | So in 1933, "ordinary" => "ornery" => "or'ny" ==> mean (average, common). In 1973, "ornery" => "or'ny" ==> mean (angry, irascible). They start and end at the same concept, but the concepts shifted. | |
| Dec 1, 2013 at 1:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/406956058830454784 | ||
| Nov 30, 2013 at 23:12 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | "Ornery" in the sense of "mean" or "irascible", which is that in the Waylon Jennings song, was a word distinct from "ordinary" by the middle of the 19th century. But the ballad version is "ordinary", heavily elided to fit the meter. | |
| Nov 30, 2013 at 22:58 | history | asked | rajah9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |