Date:  Tue, 19 Apr 1994 08:03:54 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: ink pen



    My Middle Georgia wife reports that she and her friends were once

sent into paroxisms of laughter upon hearing a young man from Tennessee

disambiguate the homophonous pin/pen by asking for a "marking pen."





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu