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The Hoosier Boatman?

After 177 years of arguments about it, there is still a great dispute over the origin of the term "Hoosier." Now, a Hanover College English instructor -- and a Shakespeare scholar, no less -- takes a stab at it:

Smith found an editorial in an 1833 Cincinnati newspaper in which the word "Hooshier" was used to describe the "now extinct class of mortals called the Ohio Boatman

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