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From: cromwell@pur-ee.UUCP (Cromwell)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 14:41:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 14:41:31 1984
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Being from the southern part of Indiana (between Bloomington and the river)
I had always gone to church pitch-ins on one sunday night a month.  I thought
nothing of it until I read an article (Smithsonian magazine, I think) that
said that "pitch-in" is only used in southern Indiana.  So, does anyone
else out there recognize this term??  It means what some people call a
"put-luck dinner", I think.  A pitch-in is where everyone gets together
and brings one dish of food, and it gets put all together on one table,
which everyone then takes from, smorgasboard style.

Occaisionally I will ask someone to "reach me the x" instead of "hand me
the x" and get some strange looks, too.  But, that one is probably more
widespread.

					Bob Cromwell