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Re: OT: My wedding pictures

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 8:06
 --- John Cowan skrzypszy:

> By "7.5l" he means, indeed, 7.5 liters. The U.S. customary gallon is > 3.79 liters, the Imperial gallon is 4.55 liters.
Wow, that's impressive! Peter, you seem to be a major employer of American cows! ;)
> > "My dad is a drunk and my mother a whore, no wonder we're so devastatingly > > poor." > > This actually rhymes in some varieties of American English, those that > make the keywords [hu@\r] and [pu\@r].
FWIW, in Dutch stone coal English they rhyme: [hO:r] and [pO:r]. ;) Interesting, how a message about wedding pictures could change into an English pronunciation thread within one day :))) . Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/