End of ADS-L Digest - 23 Mar 1995 to 24 Mar 1995

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There are 8 messages totalling 151 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. ADS-L Digest - 22 Mar 1995 to 23 Mar 1995

 2. Words of the 20th Century

 3. Ossining / Sing Sing

 4. picayune

 5. Rabbit = Rodent?

 6. Grammar Books (2)

 7. had the biscuit



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Date:  Sat, 25 Mar 1995 09:12:45 -0500

From:  Heilan Yvette Grimes <HEP2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 22 Mar 1995 to 23 Mar 1995



>Does the reply in the following exchange (from another list) surprise

>anyone as much as it does me? I've known the word, in the meaning "petty,

>nit-picking," at least since my undergrad days in Ohio. Is it regional?

>Generational? Is there anyone on this list who hasn't heard it?

>

>Peter McGraw

>Linfield College

>McMinnville, OR



Wasn't there a brand of cigarettes in the 1940's called Picayunes?