Re: CHAT: Southern word
From: | <ishmael@...> |
Date: | Saturday, March 25, 2000, 3:08 |
Unleaded?
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I got this in a newsletter:
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>TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE WEEK
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>UNLADDA (adjective). A grade of gasoline.
>Usage: "I'm gonna fill up my new truck with unladda."
I usually guess the meaning with help of the usage
example, but this one beats me. :)
--Pablo Flores
http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
... I cannot combine any characters that the divine Library
has not foreseen, which in some of its secret tongues do not
bear some terrible meaning. No-one can articulate a syllable
not filled of caresses and fears; which is not, in some one
of those languages, the powerful name of a god...
Jorge Luis Borges, _The Library of Babel_