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?