Re: Borrowing a word
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 23, 2003, 8:44 |
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At 10:28 22.8.2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>When my father (a first generation Irish-American, born in 1904) was being
>particularly silly, he would say in mocking tones "/&n'f_wVtIz'pT&t/?"
Can we get an orthographic version?
/BP 8^)
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