A question for the historical experts:  What is the final letter in the name represented by the second S in SS Stewart?   Most sources represent his name as Samuel Swain Stewart (final letter is "n").  Others, with excellent credentials, give the name as Samuel Swaim Stewart (final letter is "m"). So which is it, "n" or "m"  ? Swain or Swaim? 

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My mother used to say, "don't fish in the benjo ditches". The Navy stationed Dad in Japan in the late 50's and the family went with. I was born there and my eldest brother was a 10yr old. I'm sure she probably had first hand experience keeping him outta the ditches!

Yup, "benjo" is the word. I learned about it at age 17 from a well-informed linguist who was poo-poo-ing the notion of his aunt Betty who believed that certain sounds were "universally euphonious". She had named her son (the linguist's unfortunate young cousin) Benjamin Joseph for the sole purpose of contracting that to Ben Joe, a sound that made her swoon from pleasurable euphony, and from self-satisfaction at "knowing" that the rest of the world would react as she did.   He never did tell his aunt what benjo meant in Japan.


That is funny.It is sort of a japanese redneck name like Billy Bob. I met a guy once whose birth certificate declared his real name was Hounddog. His daddy was a moonshiner in Kentucky. He made good hootch, I can verify to that.
Jody Stecher said:

Yup, "benjo" is the word. I learned about it at age 17 from a well-informed linguist who was poo-poo-ing the notion of his aunt Betty who believed that certain sounds were "universally euphonious". She had named her son (the linguist's unfortunate young cousin) Benjamin Joseph for the sole purpose of contracting that to Ben Joe, a sound that made her swoon from pleasurable euphony, and from self-satisfaction at "knowing" that the rest of the world would react as she did.   He never did tell his aunt what benjo meant in Japan.

Jody means gambling in Indonesian

It's a gamble every time I play the banjo. 

skip sail said:

Jody means gambling in Indonesian

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