chink in the armor

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 1 12:19:56 UTC 2013


Adding insult to injury, he might also have been punning on the Mandarin
pronunciation of the Chinese family name, <Deng>.  The vowel is a schwa
with a high-falling tone.

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