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In Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, one of the characters mentions playing "mumbley-peg" as a child in pre-WW2 southern USA. According to wikiped
by andyjohnson0 4y ago
In Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, one of the characters mentions playing "mumbley-peg" as a child in pre-WW2 southern USA. According to wikipedia [1] this is an alternative spelling of the Tudor english "mumble-the-peg" game mentioned in the article.
Facinating how thing persist.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg
- JohnFen 4y agoI played "mumbletypeg" as a child, but until this very moment it never occurred to me that was a corruption of "mumble-the-peg". Fun to see "Bloody Knuckles" referenced on that wikipedia page, too. Ahh, the good old days.