Wow, UW looks like a place where people work on language. Nice piece just out in the Wisconsin Week, available here, about the Dictionary of American Regional English.
I had to google williwags to find out that it means the sticks or boonies.
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
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