Date:  Wed, 12 Oct 1994 00:25:52 -0400

From:  PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: Re: Name that syntagm



James Beniger's "Sure, Sure" story reminds me (but alas only

partially) of a joke my father used to tell. Unfortunately this is

typical of his humor! Some similarly pompous or confident fellow is

proclaiming that "there are only 3 words in the English language which

begin S-U- but are pronounced 'shu-': SUGAR, SUMAC and [?]". His

listener then asks, "Are you sure?"

    The problem is I can't remember the 3rd one, or find one in a

dictionary, excepot variants of "sure". Does anyone know...?

    --plp