Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!wyse From: wyse@ihuxq.UUCP (Neal C. Wyse) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Strange License Plates in Indiana Message-ID: <581@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 13:09:17 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.581 Posted: Thu Feb 2 13:09:17 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:26:03 EST References: <506@pucc-h> <6720@mgweed.UUCP> <878@ihuxl.UUCP> <883@ihuxl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 > I've always wondered just what "Hoosier" means. If you look it up > in Webster's you get "a native of Indiana". I guess a better question > is "What is the etiology of the word 'Hoosier' ?" Al McGuire (sp?), the former basketball coach and currently sports commentator for NBC college basketball once gave a story about how "Hoosier" came about. I don't remember the exact details, but it had something to do with a bar room brawl in which a partipicants ear was bitten off and lost. That night or the next day, when the ear was found, the finder asked: Who's ear? which eventually evolved to Hoosier. One could also comment on the spelling ability of people from Indiana in order to get "Hoosier" from "Who's ear." ;-) I have to believe that this was something he made up, but who knows. Neal Wyse ihnp4!ihuxq!wyse