taint

[Jonathan Lighter]

Q.: "Why does the sun never set on the British Empire ?"
A.: "God doesn't trust the Brits in the dark."

JL

neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: neil
Subject: Re: taint
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

on 7/4/05 12:24 am, Sally O. Donlon at sod at LOUISIANA.EDU wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: "Sally O. Donlon"
> Subject: Re: taint
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--> -
>
> Another clear-cut case of "two countries separated by a common
> language." Or something to that effect. . .
>
> sally

Vive la diference!

We also have Baffin's bridge; biffin; biffin('s) bridge; biffits bridge;
biffon; bonch; bosphorus; bronski; brownsward

--Neil Crawford


---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
 Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.