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From: "Don Watson" <>
Subject: Re: [WATSON] Watsons of Missourri
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:54:26 -0600
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We pronounced it "mittlin". It comes from "middle", obviously.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Ellis" <>
Actually, it is 'fair to middlin' and it had to do with grading cotton,
middlin' cotton was a better grade.

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

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