Date:    Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:17:02 -0800
<br>From:    Kim & Rima McKinzey  rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET 
<br>Subject: Re: "white coffee"
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<br> I grew up in NY, ordering "regular coffee," meaning coffee with milk and
<br> sugar.
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<br>That's how I recall it.  If you wanted something else, you'd specify no
<br>sugar, or black, or light - meaning extra milk (or half & half).
<br> 
<br> Since he'd raised some lexical issues, I took the opportunity to ask him
<br> about chaise lounges (which we prounounced to rhyme with Shays,
<br> prounouncing the initial sound as in chocolate).  While I use the term to
<br> mean any patio furniture on which I can stretch out my legs, he uses
<br> "lounge chair" for the folding kind and "chaise lounge" for the wrought
<br> iron kind, or any non-folding lounge chair.
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<br>I remember hearing it as rhyming with says and starting with sh for the
<br>first word, but the second was plain old lounge.  A "lounge chair" was the
<br>patio plastic kind, but a chaise lounge was a piece of indoor furniture,
<br>upholstered.
<br>
<br>Rima
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