Bud the Spud Bud the Spud "Bud the Spud" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriting Stompin' Tom Connors. The song is an account of a trucker who hauls potatoes from Prince Edward Island, Connors' home province. "Bud the Spud" was released in 1969 on Connors' album "Bud The Spud and Other Favourites". It was written about his truck-driving friend, Bud Roberts. Connors crisscrossed Canada, performing it along with his many other songs about Canada, at first in small venues. In this way the song became known through word-of-mouth as well as through radio airplay on CBC Radio. The song was turned into an
Back slang Back slang Back slang is an English coded language in which the written word is spoken phonemically backwards. Back slang is thought to have originated in Victorian England, being used mainly by market sellers, such as butchers and greengrocers, to have private conversations behind their customers' backs and pass off lower quality goods to less observant customers. The first published reference to it was in 1851, in Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor". Some back slang has entered standard English. For example, the term "yob" was originally back slang for "boy". Back slang is not only restricted to