Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:16:06 EST

From: flanigan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: three threads



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Date: 08-Feb-1996 07:14pm EST



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From: Beverly Flanigan Dept: Linguistics

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Subject: three threads





Color me rural. Growing up in Minnesota in the 40s and 50s, I heard my

mother and her sisters regularly say "five and dime," "dime store,"

"Monkey Ward" (no -s), and "I don't chew my cabbage twice" (as an

admonition to us not to ask her for repeats or to delay obeying some

command). Interestingly, I don't recall hearing my father use these

phrases--perhaps because men didn't frequent those stores as much as

women did? Nor was he prone to aphorisms, unless they were in Swedish.

--Beverly (Olson) Flanigan







Received: 08-Feb-1996 07:16pm