Heard on The Judges: How to spell the BE pronunciation of _whore_

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 15 00:27:26 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I prefer "ho." The "w" is for the long form.

"Different strokes for different folks," to coin a phrase.

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