Out of pure linquistic curiosity, how often do you see the term "Tinker" used in the ply articles you post/go through? (I noticed the usage of "a tinker's dam" in the article from The Call-Leader, Elwood, Indiana 1937 and I was shocked to see a term I've never heard outside Ireland and the UK used so casually in an Indiana paper. I probably wouldn't have sent this ask if it was an East Coast paper, but I just didn't expect large groups of English Isles immigrants so far inland.)
Not super often.. but then, I haven’t really been looking for it, so maybe more often than I think! I did see one a couple days ago when I was looking for things with “damn” that said something about how “it’s still swearing, even if you say Tinker’s Dam”
Here’s one similar to the one I saw (might even be the same!)
The Daily Republican,
Monongahela, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1915
Although, by 1937..
Interior Journal, Stanford, Kentucky, August 6, 1937
And, hey, even in 1904:
The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, October 24, 1904
