Dialect-clash

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed May 23 22:39:47 UTC 2012


"List of 25 sounds saved by Library of Congress"

When I saw this headline in the local broadsheet about "sounds," I had
no idea that the reference was literally to *sounds*! I thought that
the article was going to be about *sounds*!

Youneverknow.

http://timesleader.com/detail.html?sub_id=154364
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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