Dear Prof. Kent-Drury,
poor Molly Malone is more and more to deplore. Can you tell me the date of
William Clausons recording? Thank you very much for your help! Yours
Barbara Boock
At 09:42 21.09.99 -0400, you wrote:
> _A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue_ (1796) (by Captain Francis Grose) says
>that to "cry cockles" is "to be hanged: perhaps from the noise made whilst
>strangling." The version of Molly Malone I heard as a child (recorded by
>William Clauson) and which I have no reason to believe was based on
>authority, said "she died of a favor and no one could save her." I
>assumed it was a different pronunciation of "fever," but based upon the
>current discussion, "favor" also makes sense.
>
>
>Roxanne Kent-Drury
>Assistant Professor
>Literature and Language Department
>Northern Kentucky University
>Highland Heights, KY 41099
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>website: http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/index.html
>
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