Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:11:43 -0500

From: "M. Lynne Murphy" 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA

Subject: Re: hurl v.i.



To hurl - to upchuck, to toss your cookies, to hug the great white whale,

to pray before the alabaster god, to barf. In short, to throw up.



Dennis (who alays hopes it is the last time)



a non-linguistic note: a friend just informed me that on an oprah

show about phobias the fear of vomiting was somewhere around number

4 in the top ten (or whatever) list of common phobias. (she sent

this info to me because i'm well-known in certain circles for this

fear. one takes one's fame any way one can get it.)



a linguistic note: in south africa (if you're unfortunate), you

kotch.



lynne, who recently used "they threw up the apples" in an ambiguity

assignment



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