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Originally Posted by edjs
I guess to me, “hailing from” means where you are from. No one knows better than you where he was from, since you wrote the book, and are his kin. Do you think he would have said “I hail from Weiser, Idaho” if someone asked him where he was from? My guess, he would say either Kansas or California.
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He would say he was from Kansas, for sure. However, you said that the auction description has him coming from Idaho, whereas what they said was that he hailed from Idaho, as in "hailing from Idaho...blah, blah, blah," which, if you look up it up in the dictionary, can mean either being born there or coming from there. And how can you expect these guys to be such experts in photo matching (!) and linguistics at the same time?