Word: gano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gorming has its full terminology. Pie is charlie brown because the latter had to have pie at every meal. Dom is chicken, after the Dominique, a particular breed. Broadie is a cow or a steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...
Maybe a Good One. The son of a railroad brakeman, Roy Howard was born in a tollgate house in Gano, Ohio, and was blooded in the newspaper business hawking papers as a boy in Indianapolis. He drifted from paper to paper before finally latching onto a job with the Cincinnati Post of the Scripps-McRae chain. Three years later he met the chain's guiding genius: E. W. Scripps. It was quite a meeting...