End of ADS-L Digest - 7 Jul 1997 to 8 Jul 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 8 Jul 1997 to 9 Jul 1997
There are 14 messages totalling 339 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Bleach (3)
 2. nasal flaps? (4)
 3. "smelt"
 4. Golden Oldies (2)
 5. clorox or whatever (3)
 6. RE>Re: Golden Oldies

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Date:  Wed, 9 Jul 1997 06:26:34 -0400
From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104lyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>
Subject: Re: Bleach

> I found that interesting. You might expect to hear "smelt" somewhere back
> in the hills, but not from the mouth of an obviously middle class woman in
> a commercial made for national distribution. Yet it had to be intentional.

i dunno, i'd say 'smelt'. perhaps i've just been living among the
britishy-speaking for too long, though.

lynne

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