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Vocabulary Quiz, Southern US Version
Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Apr 15, 2014
I think I've remembered (makes a change)
pig in a poke - I think is a con job ?
Vocabulary Quiz, Southern US Version
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 15, 2014
Right you both are. A poke is a sack.
The 'pig in a poke' thing was an old con job, Prof - somebody would put a cat in a sack, and pass it off as a piglet. Of course, nobody usually paid that much for a kitty. 
The Germans call it 'Katze im Sack kaufen' - to buy a cat in a sack.
In the US, you can make a mp of where people say 'sack' or 'bag'. But 'poke' is just rural Southern. In Pittsburgh, it's always 'bag'.
Sort of like the 'soda/pop' demarcation.
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