End of ADS-L Digest - 8 Oct 1997 to 9 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 9 Oct 1997 to 10 Oct 1997
There are 22 messages totalling 576 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. What's a chrome? (5)
 2. The Lords Prayer/Ebonics (5)
 3. Ebonics-Sorry!
 4. NPR interviews (4)
 5. New word? (4)
 6. Edress = email address?
 7. land mines (2)

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Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 1997 00:26:25 -0400
From:  "Jeutonne P. Brewer" <jpbrewer[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU>
Subject: Re: What's a chrome?

Chromes sounds to me like hubcaps, but I don't know if that is
the current term.

Jeutonne

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, (Dale F. Coye) wrote:

> Here in NJ apparently the latest thing for adolescent boys to do is go out
> and steal chromes off cars. Some 14 year olds I know were caught doing this
> yesterday and are in big trouble.  But none of us adults can figure out what
> chromes are.  Anybody know or heard this? Are they decorative or
> functional?
>
> Dale Coye
> The College of NJ.
>

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Jeutonne P. Brewer, Associate Professor
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27412
email: jpbrewer[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hamlet.uncg.edu
URL:  http://www.uncg.edu/~jpbrewer
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