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Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally Re: Miscellaneous Nonsense

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, August 18, 2000, 16:43
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:47:11 -0500 "Thomas R. Wier"
<artabanos@...> writes:
> > In a space approximately 16 feet by 10, I have a bed, a chest > of drawers,
> I've always wondered about the distribution of this phrase -- "chest > of drawers". > My mother uses it, but I've always used "dresser" or "bureau". Are > there any > dialects this is associated with?
> ====================================== > Tom Wier | "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." > ======================================
- Well, in my family we always used it, (and the "of" is always just [@]) but we also use "dresser" (but never "bureau"). A [tSEst@'drOrz] is thinner (about a yard wide) and taller (coming up to about shoulder-height). We have two of those at home, and my parents also have a ['drEs@r], which is shorter (about waist-height) and wider (about two and two-thirds yards wide) and what's important is that it has mirrors sticking up from it, to use when you're getting *dressed*. -Stephen (Steg) "...and tidal waves couldn't save the world from californication..." ~ _californication_ by the red hot chili peppers