This is folk speech that is found in the maritime world. They are names that are given under various circumstances when sailing around the world. A shellback is a name given to someone who crosses the Equator for the first time while aboard a ship. A golden dragon is someone who crosses the dateline. The… Continue Reading »
Informant: “At Andover, graduation is a big thing because, so tradition-wise it always, you lead the gradu—blue key heads, which I’ll explain in a sec, lead and, they lead and, uh, end the graduation procession and, uh, the graduation procession follows bagpipers so we have a full band of bagpipers and this is apparently like… Continue Reading »
My informant described a yearly ceremony at her high school, Notre Dame Academy, Junior Ring Ceremony. This ceremony takes place at the end of the fall semester each year. This is when junior receive their class rings. Students do not have to purchase a traditional class ring, any ring is fine. Generally, students try to… Continue Reading »
Informant : “Horseshoe-ers when you lay your hammer down for the last time the only thing you have to look forward to is dying” The informant is a kind, older, “cowboy” who has been working with horses and farm animals for his entire life. He is a Certified Journeyman Farrier (the highest level of… Continue Reading »
My friend is currently a freshman at Northwestern University. She is majoring in journalism, so she lives in the CRC (Communications Residential College) at the university. The CRC primarily consists of freshman and sophomore communications majors. Every year, the sophomores in CRC start hyping up an event called Panquake. They usually do this a few… Continue Reading »