WORD BUILDING 
Submitted by Kay Mason <KLMPIANO@aol.com on May 20, 2000
              
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	"WALTER FIELDS' father-in-law was a Mr. BANFIELD who seems to have had very little 
education but loved to use big sounding words and would make up words if none he knew seemed to 
fit the occasion. 

       	One of the FIELDS brothers told me that Mr. BANFIELD was at a local gathering where 
dinner was served and when the serving woman asked him if he would have cream ad sugar in his 
coffee he replied, 'Yes, Ma'am, if you please, Ma'am.  The cream is the diabolical part, and the 
sugar gives it a sort of tyrang that makes it taste most abtute, Ma'am.'  This is a fair sample 
of his word building capacity. 

	Another occasion he remarked on the dry hot weather and said, "The heat has dried up the 
molecules of the air till Thunderstorm can't acknowledge his footsteps."  What he meant was the 
dust was so deep in the road that it flowed into his horse'[s tracks, as he walked, so that they 
were unrecognizable.  His horse's name was Thunderstorm. 
          
	'BOONE' FIELDS gave me another example of word building done by one of our mututal 
friends - Mr. EPH BOGGS.  A short distance away Reedwille the E.K.R.R. ran through a small cut in 
a hill - a slide had closed the road for a time when one day BOONE' [FIELDS] and friend [EPH] 
BOGGS rode along together on horseback on the County road alongside the railroad but up on the 
hillside above it.  As they came opposite the cut workmen were moving their tools out and the 
train was coming up to come through where the slide had been. 

 	The riders stopped and looking down on the moving men and train EPH {BOGGS] burst out, 
'Well, it looks like the Old E.K. is going to resume operations, the way she's "ornicating" 
herself.'  Friend EPH [BOGGS] never lacked for a word - and made them up as he talked. 
              
	Like Mrs. BANFIELD was quoted as saying of her husband's language that he 
could 'use more improper language than anybody' - only she unwittingly used 'improper' for 
'proper.'  " 

       
              Kay Mason 

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