Take a look at this video, starting at 3 min, 5 sec.

Sigogglin is probably archaic, as most of the entries below suggest, but it's interesting that National Geographic would give it a mention. As I said earlier, I have never heard the word in the SC or NC Piedmont, but one of my evening students from West Virginia had no problem defining it for me. ht...

Thanks for the links. I've never seem the word in print.

Personally, I think it's a great word to describe how someone might walk after spending an hour or so on a barstool.

I've had my share of hamburgers and hot dogs. I was mildly disputing the use of "an historical."

I know people say it, but it goes against the a/an rule regarding articles that precede consonant/vowel sounds. And it sounds hifalutin to boot.

Re the "Notes" section, I don't pronounce "historical" with a silent h, and I don't say "an historical event." Nor have I ever ordered an hamburger or an hot dog.

Am I alone in these quirks?

Many thanks.

SAP

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...

The Sainting of Saint Valentine Before we canonize this man, there should be intercourse Let us with lusty voices pray for God's all-guiding force Then lead us to a pleasing climax when the meeting's done And now 'tis my desire that we proceed to Item One He's dead for sure? No man can stay erect a...