letter of tobacco

letter n 357. Used in poor time & particularly,in the St. John's area, of JUMBO plug tobacco which sold for 25cents a stick (note not _PLUG_) and which divided evenly into five letters at 5 cents each. Many general stores had a tobacco cutter that operated on the principle of a cheese cutte...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1973
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53834
id ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/53834
record_format openpolar
spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/53834 2023-12-31T10:19:25+01:00 letter of tobacco 1973/03/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53834 eng eng L L. Harris, 1/72 Q 71 D St. Joseph's, P.B. References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 15121 L_15121_letter n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53834 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript 1973 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:32Z letter n 357. Used in poor time & particularly,in the St. John's area, of JUMBO plug tobacco which sold for 25cents a stick (note not _PLUG_) and which divided evenly into five letters at 5 cents each. Many general stores had a tobacco cutter that operated on the principle of a cheese cutter but with a much heavier blade. Only tobacco that had the brand name in relief on the stick itself could be so divided - though I believe that a small portion of any brand came to be called a "letter". Nevertheless, the usage began with the JUMBO brand. DNE-cit JH 3/73 Used I Used I Used I letter of tobacco Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 17 Jul 2015 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
institution Open Polar
collection Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
op_collection_id ftmemorialunivdc
language English
topic English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
letter of tobacco
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description letter n 357. Used in poor time & particularly,in the St. John's area, of JUMBO plug tobacco which sold for 25cents a stick (note not _PLUG_) and which divided evenly into five letters at 5 cents each. Many general stores had a tobacco cutter that operated on the principle of a cheese cutter but with a much heavier blade. Only tobacco that had the brand name in relief on the stick itself could be so divided - though I believe that a small portion of any brand came to be called a "letter". Nevertheless, the usage began with the JUMBO brand. DNE-cit JH 3/73 Used I Used I Used I letter of tobacco Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 17 Jul 2015
format Manuscript
title letter of tobacco
title_short letter of tobacco
title_full letter of tobacco
title_fullStr letter of tobacco
title_full_unstemmed letter of tobacco
title_sort letter of tobacco
publishDate 1973
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53834
genre Newfoundland
genre_facet Newfoundland
op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation L
L. Harris, 1/72 Q 71 D St. Joseph's, P.B.
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
15121
L_15121_letter n
http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53834
_version_ 1786825571804643328

Similar Items