Talk:Loblolly boy

Roger Daltrey / "The Trafalgar Surgeon"

I'm hesitating to delete this, since I haven't seen the programmes, so I'm unsure how relevant it is. There doesn't seem to be much information about the series on the Web, so I'm throwing the issue of relevance and accuracy into the air for you all. --Kay Dekker (talk) 15:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't know about the accuracy (I haven't seen the series either), but the relevance is probably the same as the other fictional loblolly boys referenced in the first paragraph. Probably needs to have a separate section, something like: "Loblolly Boys in Fiction" Petermarcus (talk) 20:16, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

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Etymology

There is a West Country dialect word "loplolly" meaning lazy or idle. I wonder if there is a connection? Much of the Royal Navy was south-west based and "lobscouse" was the most common name given to gruel made from ship's biscuit. Is it possible that the name "Loblolly" for the gruel given to the patients has become reverse defined from the term loblolly boy, rather than the other way around? 151.170.240.200 (talk) 09:45, 24 November 2020 (UTC)