[Ads-l] "Downsight"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In a somewhat similar vein, for some years (though not forever) I've been
> hearing
> / 'hausiz /
>

Me, too. Usually by the same people who use "Eli[s]e Dai[s]y Li[s]a," etc.


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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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