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Howdy is an informal greeting, commonly thought to have originated as a shortened form of the greeting "How do ye?" It was first recorded as part of the Southern U.S. dialect in 1840.[1] Literature from that period includes the use of "How-do, how-do" as a greeting used by Native Americans when addressing Anglo settlers in greeting. The double form of the idiom is still found in parts of Texas as "Howdy, howdy". Without regard to etymological beginnings, the word is used as a greeting such as "Hello" and not, normally, as an inquiry.
It is typically associated with Southern American English, especially from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and the northern parts of Louisiana and Florida where the Southern dialect is predominant. It is the official greeting of Texas A&M University.[2] It is also the name of the popular web portal at Texas A&M University.[3]
In Texas, howdy is a colloquial contraction of the formal greeting of "How do you do?", and as such is a formal and acceptable greeting for residents of that region of the world.
Howdy can also refer to:
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People [link]
- Howdy Groskloss, a major league baseball player
- Howard 'Howdy' Quicksell, a banjo player
- Howdy Doody, a children's television program doll
- Howdy Holmes, racecar driver
- Howdy Wilcox, American racecar driver
Music [link]
- Howdy!, an album by British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub
- Sieg Howdy!, an album by Jello Biafra and The Melvins
- Boy Howdy, an American country music band
Misc. [link]
- Howdy, a character in Hamtaro
- Bang! Howdy, an online strategy game
- Howdy Doody, a children's television program
- Howdy Mr. Ice, ice shows at the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center, New York City
- HOWDY, an integrated database system for accessing and analyzing human genomic information, see MetaBase.
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- McLemore, David. "SAVING AN ENDANGERED SPECIESS Native Texan Buddy Calk wants "Howdy"to come back, y'all." [sic] The Dallas Morning News. January 22, 1989.
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Howdy (disambiguation)
Howdy is an informal greeting commonly associated with Southern American English.
Howdy may also refer to:
People
Music
Fictional characters
Glow (Reef album)
Glow is the second studio album by English Britpop band Reef. Produced by the band and George Drakoulias, the album was released on 27 January 1997 supported by the singles "Place Your Hands", "Come Back Brighter", "Consideration" and "Yer Old". Glow topped the UK Albums Chart.
Reception
Generally speaking, Glow was received positively. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of music website Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars, claiming it to be "more focused and better than its predecessor [Replenish]" and describing it as "inspired" and "terrific". Rock music magazine Kerrang! ranked the album third on their 1997 "Albums of the Year" list.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Gary Stringer, all music composed by Reef.
Personnel
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Glow (The Innocence Mission album)
Glow is the third album from American folk rock band The Innocence Mission, released in 1995 on A&M Records. Musically, it marks a radical departure for the group, as The Sundays/10,000 Maniacs-inspired dream pop aesthetic found on their first two albums was replaced by a more straightforward, cleaner rock sound. The album was recorded over a several-month period at Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana and Bad Animals Studios, Seattle, Washington.
Track listing
All songs written by Karen Peris except "Keeping Awake", music by Don and Karen Peris.
"Bright As Yellow"
"Bright As Yellow", the album's only official single, peaked at number 33 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was featured extensively on several episodes of the hit TV series Party Of Five and can also be found on the soundtrack to the movie Empire Records, among others.
Glow (Kaki King album)
Glow, the sixth full-length album by American guitarist Kaki King, was released October 9, 2012. On Glow King returns to her instrumental roots and is accompanied by the string quartet ETHEL. “This is a guitar record,” King says to describe this album. The first single, "Great Round Burn", is available to download at RollingStone.com.
Track listing
Critical reception
The album currently has a Metacritic rating of 68% based on six reviews from professional critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.
