Talk:Miss Lucy Long

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An entry from Miss Lucy Long appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 27 September 2006.

Nice. Perhaps mention should be made about the 1920s recording of Lucy Long by Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools (with young Louis Armstrong on cornet)? -- Infrogmation 02:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

In the interpretation, an assumption is being made that the nineteenth-century audience confused "tarry" with "dally", as the twentieth-century editors appear to do. A paragraph of commentary is built upon this shaky foundation. --Wetman 03:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Was it not the case in the 19th century that "tarry" could be a synonym for "dally"? It's given as such in the Houghton Mifflin thesaurus. -- BrianSmithson 04:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC)