New England Words for the Earthworm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8727664 |
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| Authors | Rachel Harris (0000-0001-5584-5420, corresponding author), Rachel S Harris |
| Year | 1933 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 12-12 |
| Publication date | 1933-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3181899 |
| OpenAlex | W2330471513 |
| Language | EN |
worm, there be very many names. This statement is true, at least, in the case of the earthworm which is so commonly used as bait in fishing. In New England the earthworm is referred to by the undiscriminating as the worm, by the fisherman as bait, and by the average New Englander as one of half a dozen dialectal terms: angleworm, angledog, easworm, fishworm, mudworm, or rainworm. These humble and homely terms by their geographic distribution reflect with fair accuracy the history of the settlement of New England. The distribution of the words is
Biology · Distribution (mathematics · Dozen · Earthworm · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Linguistics · Lumbricidae · Settlement (finance · Statement (logic · Archaeology and Natural History · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · Computer Science · Mathematics · Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation · Ecology · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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