Re: OT: My wedding pictures
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 5, 2003, 17:12 |
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Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
> > (I, too, am a fanatic drinker of milk--nothing wrong with that. Go through
> > two gallons--7.5l--a week.)
>
> How much is that in litres? I'm used to two - three litres a day, sometimes
> more (max. 5, I think).
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.
> "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]. The spelling pronunciation [hOr\]
is more normal for the former, however. Some writers use the spelling
"hoor" to represent dialects that use [hu\r] -- usually stigmatized ones,
though an English professor of mine said it.
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