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[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> No--that would be an after-effect of circumcision.

Or a critique of an unsteady mohel:

"Whaddayamean my hands were shaky?  Shaky, shmaky, stop already with the briticisms--did I cut it off or didn't I cut it off?"

Actually your pun took me a moment, because I'm in the "bris" rather than "brit" dialect.  I forget where the isogloss is positioned.

LH


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>    VS-)
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> On 6/11/2012 2:41 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> "... a _specialism_ in etymology."
>>
>> A Briticism?
>>
>> --
>> -Wilson
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