Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 07:44:14 -0800
From: Paul Pease pease[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CRL.COM
Subject: Re: second thoughts
I went to high school in Minneapolis. When I got to Southwest High, our
rival was Washburn, pronounced Warshburn. I suspect to this day that r is
still in Washburn. AM I right?
I was eleven before I found out there was no l in flaucet. Where water
comes of. My folks thought it was cute, sonever corrected me.
Cheers!
On Tue, 22 Feb 1994, Martha Howard wrote:
on and preserved. When I was seven, our maid served me every morning a
"porched" egg. I would eat it and go off to school, wonderin why it was
called porched. Because it should be eaten on a porch, or cooked on a porch?