End of ADS-L Digest - 6 Oct 1995 to 7 Oct 1995

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There are 25 messages totalling 574 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. PEAS (9)

 2. Polk salad and rampy stuff (2)

 3. various responses

 4. Mondegreens

 5. Wittgenstein

 6. Another Lexical Item

 7. place names (2)

 8. another thread (2)

 9. ADS & LEXICAL CHOICE (2)

 10. student mondegreens/malapropisms; "fun" (2)

 11. miscellany, lexical

 12. green/string beans



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Date:  Sun, 8 Oct 1995 00:05:53 -0400

From:  ALICE FABER <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: PEAS



Seth Sklarey writes:



> In the Bahmama they have pigeon peas, which appear to be a small green pea

> but not as developed. Peanuts in the south are called goober peas. The

> green giant in the 1960's wanted peas on earth. The way to catch a polar bear

> is to cut a hole in the ice, the diameter of a polar bear, and circle the

> perimeter with green peas. When the polar bear comes up to take a pea, you

> hit it in the head.



I'll ignore the pun and move on the the peas...When I was living in Texas, my

then-husband (now ex-) developed a severe rash that necessitated his being on

a hypoallergenic diet. There were two vegetables on the faded xerox of

permitted foods that I was given, green beans and English peas (both canned or

fresh, but not frozen). The green beans were no problem (if I rinsed the salt

from the canning liquid away), but I never did figure out what English peas

are. The only peas I know from are green, snow, or black-eyed. But then, what

do I know? I'm from New York!



Alice Faber