[ansel12]

One of many old newspaper examples, this one from 1873, look at the middle ad for flour.

[ansel12]

Here are two examples one from a movie and one from a TV series.

A western movie “Rawhide 1951” uses huckeberry at 43:25.
https://youtu.be/rEdH9yWhFfg?si=nPJ4ygqUvX8m3d57&t=2597

Yancy Derringer at the 23:27 mark.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Return to New Orleans 1958 · 27 min
https://youtu.be/OQlhIEOleOc?si=b0sG1sdi7Bl_GfgE&t=1392

[Inyo-Mono]

Thanks!

[rlmorel]

I love this kind of thing. When I was in college, one of the assignments in an English class was to research a word. They passed out slips of paper, and everyone had their own word. Etymology.

I don’t remember what word I researched, but I recall it was a lot of fun, and very interesting.

It is the only time I seriously got to use that big, thick dictionary (about 8-12” thick) the Oxford English Dictionary, I think...the ones on the fixed stand in the library!