vaca

[Bradley A. Esparza]

I've been using "vay-kay" for years. I've never considered the spelling
before as I usually always spell out the word.

On 6/29/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> Last night on The Daily Show, Claire Danes remarked that she had been
> enjoying a "vaca" [veke] in Hawaii.  I had never heard that clipping, and
> it's not recorded in UrbanDictionary.com.  Among lots of Spanish cows,
> Google yields a limited humber of tokens (search the phrase "vaca in Hawaii"
> (or some other popular destination).
>
> --Charlie
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Bradley A. Esparza

"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy
Parker, when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.

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