Date:  Fri, 28 Oct 1994 15:41:50 -0500

From:  debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU

Subject: Re: buggy vs. cart



>As soon as Dennis B. mentioned "carriage" I had an almost Proustian recall.

>Yes, that was the word we used in New York in the '50's, although I should say

>A word, since "shopping cart" (not, I think, reduced to "cart") was also

>extant. Wow, "carriage"--that really takes me back.

>

>Larry



I'm glad to know I didn't imagine carriage. My wife still thinks I made it

up, even when I read her Larry's reply. I grew up in NY in the 40s and 50s.

She's from Chicago, and we all know how impoverished their vocabulary is.



Dennis

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