id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 35634 Wrigley, Sarah A. Finley The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 .txt text/plain 12026 669 70 State of Indiana and its people have been designated by the word print by John Finley, in his poem "The Hoosiers Nest," and this is Republican a discussion of the origin and making of the word "Hoosier," Monitor, "The _Hoosier_ State like true democrats have taken the lead in pronounced "hussar" "hoosier," or that from the use of that word by a commonly told about the origin of the word 'Hoosier' are all nonsense. another derivation for the word "Hoosier." It originated in a I have heard all my life of the word "hoosier" as applied to an ever heard the word "hoosier," but in a few years it became The word "Hoosier" always had the sense of roughness Indiana and its people, but of the origin of a slang term widely in use However, the word originally was not hoosier at all, but come), and thus the word "Hoosier" came into existence. ./cache/35634.txt ./txt/35634.txt