Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

"L. Gerholz" <milo@...> wrote:
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> Again adopted from my family, dinner is the biggest meal of the day,
> whether at noontime or in the evening.
    My idiolect agrees with Laurie's.  Supper is the evening meal.  =
Dinner
is the biggest meal of the day.  Often dinner is supper, but not always.
BTW, I /warS/ my hands before dinner, and sometimes drink soda during
dinner.  I've lived most of my life in Conn., but lived in Ohio until I =
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nine.  I still retain some of my Midwestern dialect (although /warS/ is =
from
my Pennsylvanian mother).  For instance, what my kids call "fireflies" I
call "lightning bugs".

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse =
96-99