Date:    Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:35:31 CST
<br>From:    Ellen Johnson  Ellen.Johnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WKU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re[2]: Spittin' Image
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<br>     Nevertheless, instances of "spirit and image" do indeed occur, for
<br>     example in the LAMSAS records, though I don't have the data available
<br>     here to comment on a racial distribution.  (I did have an elderly
<br>     white woman tell me that "X is the spit of Y" was heard from AfAms.)
<br>     Is this a further reinterpretation of spitten image (possibly
<br>     euphemistic) or a separate development?
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<br>     What dates do you have, Larry of the collocations
<br>     spitten image
<br>     spitting image
<br>     spit and image
<br>     in the United States?
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<br>     Ellen
<br>     ellen.johnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]wku.edu
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