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further. AT&T Business, the network more businesses are choosing. Welcome to another mini-cast from Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

A while back we had a call from Tony in Incenitas, California. You may remember this one.

He wanted to talk about a term for an unusual hazing ritual.

My dad woke us up one night about 8 o'clock. I said don't be alarmed. There's going to be

gunfire and a lot of noise and there's going to be a lot of people in the house where we

have a party. This is probably late spring and low and behold. Next thing we knew there were trucks driving up

and women coming in with food and we heard people shooting off guns and men doing

what men do in spring and it was a giant party and I said daddy what is this he says this is

shivery well it seems that shiveries aren't so unusual after all or at least a lot

of you wrote to tell us about your experiences with the, shall we say,

raucous surprise parties for newlyweds.

Amanda from Livingston, Wisconsin wrote to say that chivaries were quite common when she was growing up, that was in rural

Western South Dakota in the 1960s and 70s. She writes, they usually took place long enough

after the wedding that the happy couple had let down their guard.

The revelers would turn up late in the evening in a noisy caravan and take over the house,

rousing the hosts out of bed.

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