End of ADS-L Digest - 10 Feb 1996 to 11 Feb 1996

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There are 19 messages totalling 509 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Five & Dime / Dime store (2)

 2. warp speed? (6)

 3. Monkey Wards and lots more (2)

 4. new word (2)

 5. warp speed? -Reply (3)

 6. NEW -- quantum leap (2)

 7. More on warp speed

 8. Segmentals, Suprasegmentals, & Xylophones (Huh? Howzat?))



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Date:  Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:37:52 +0000

From:  "C.Thomas" <EGP95CMT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>

Subject: Re: Five & Dime / Dime store



As an English person I'm very interested to hear what "Five and

Dime" means, as it always baffled me in that popular Bryan Adams song

"Summer of '69":



"Got my first real six-string

Bought it at the Five and Dime

Played it till my fingers bled

Was the summer of '69"



Not only did I not know what it meant but I wan't even sure if that

was what the lyric actually said. And i know several other english

people speak of this as the "line which nobody knows what it says."



Charlotte





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Charlotte Thomas EGP95CMT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Sheffield.ac.uk

CECTAL

Dept. of English Language and Linguistics

University of Sheffield

Sheffield

S10 2TN

UK