Bloomin' Onion

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 30 21:57:26 UTC 2002


Bethany K. Dumas said:
>On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Alice Faber wrote:
>
>>It's a little less poetic for thems of us for whom COT and CAUGHT aren't
>>homophonous. I actually had to explain that name to my sister (a
>>non-linguist, though she'd count as a talented amateur).
>
>I think of it as being somewhat Emily Dickensesque.

It seems more like Ogden Nash to me.
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