Re: Verbal nouns

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > And here I was thinking, "Trick or treat"?
>
>Hee hee, why do you think you say it, eh?  Give me a treat, or I'll give
>you a trick is what you're saying!  :-)
There was a guy in my neighborhood when I was a kid who always told us we
had to do a trick (somersault, cartwheel, etc) before he would give us any
candy.  He wasn't serious, of course, but he did get us to act silly on his
lawn.

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