Poor Boys --> sandwiches

[Dennis R. Preston]

Right on Natalie. First time I heard "hot dog on a roll" I thought some guy
had made seven stragiht passes or something.

dInIs (who has shot more craps than he has eaten hot dogs)

>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Natalie Maynor wrote:
>
>}Lynne Murphy wrote:
>}> a bap is something Americans would call a roll
>}
>}Don't forget that not all Americans use "roll" the same way.  A
>}roll to some of us is something you put butter on -- and possibly
>}jelly.  We don't normally put meat on rolls.  We put hotdogs on
>}buns.
>}   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)
>
>Okay, so a bap is like a (hamburger) bun.  But a bun here tends to be a
>sweet danish-y, muffin-y sort of thing (especially now that Easter is
>approaching).  Ah... the semantic drift of the Gulf stream....
>
>--Aaron
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
>aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
>http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics
>
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Dennis R. Preston
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