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From: "Jane Ellis" <>
Subject: Re: [WATSON] Watsons of Missourri
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:18:10 -0600
In-Reply-To: <005201c4d000$16ec9f80$09af0c44@mycomputer>


Actually, it is 'fair to middlin' and it had to do with grading cotton,
middlin' cotton was a better grade. Anyhow, that is where the expression
originated. Being originally from Tennessee, and now from Arkansas, I am
amazed at the old expressions that come out of my 53 year old mouth! And I
thought only old people did that-uh oh, does that mean?????? Yikes!'

Jane Watson Ellis

A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my
family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/




From: "Don Watson" <>
To:
Subject: Re: [WATSON] Watsons of Missourri
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:27:07 -0600

My Dad used that expression all the time: "Fair to mittlin," meaning "fair,
to somewhere in the middle, less than good."

:-)
Don Watson


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