Howdy

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 a Southern American accent, 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. It is also the name of the popular web portal at Texas A&M University.

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:

People

• 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

Howdy was made up by Payne.(Winchester Doc., [1998-2011]).

Music

• 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.

• 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.

External links

• 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.