Timeline for The "old switcheroo": Where did the "-eroo" suffix come from?
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| Nov 19, 2017 at 20:08 | comment | added | Robusto | Thanks, Clare, and +1. Great answer. I don't recall seeing you here before, but I'm glad you are. | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 19:22 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | Modern linguists such as J. L. Dillard are aware of all these historical uses. (They're not "dummies.") I'll have to re-read Dillard and try to summarize his argumentation. It's a bit hard because I don't own either of his books. @SvenYargs | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 18:44 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | ... But the earliest transliteration of vaquero in an English language newspaper appears to be this one from “Matters in Nevada,” in the Sydney [New South Wales] Evening News (January 18, 1870): “On the right of the judge sat the widow of Roach, a tall, rather ungainly but modest-looking woman, evidently from Missouri, and said to be one of the best “buckaro’s” (wild cattle drivers) in the State, ...” | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 18:38 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Even more intriguing is "The Reformed Bushranger (A True Tale)," published in installments over six weeks in 1874 article in a New South Wales newspaper, which describes a man who had been drawn to "the wild life of the Mexican Buccarro or American Desperado." This "true tale" most frequently refers to the character as "the Buccarro" but on one occasion as "the Bucarro" and on another as "the Bucaroo". ... | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 18:38 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | This is a very well-researched answer. Your note about kisseroo enabled me to find it and two additional -eroo terms in the Wentworth article, although the earliest occurrence of kisseroo known to Wentworth was 1940. Meanwhile, of possible interest on the buckaroo front: references in Australian newspapers to Buckaroo (or Buccaroo Mountain and to a town of the same name go back to 1860. ... | |
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