vaca

[Wilson Gray]

I've used "vacay" around the house for dekkids, but I've always
considered it to be too lame for public use. Well, time brings about a
change, to coin a phrase.

-Wilson

On 6/29/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 12:27 PM -0400 6/29/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
> >Last night on The Daily Show, Claire Danes remarked that she had
> >been enjoying a "vaca" [veke] in Hawaii.
>
> ...it ("vacay") even let you ogle Claire herself, on that Hawaiian vacay:
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> http://omg.yahoo.com/claire-danes-vacay-in-hawaii/photos/208
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> omg!
>
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> LH
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