[Ads-l] Playerspeak: "in the zone"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon May 9 02:39:09 UTC 2016


On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 5:47 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Spelling Note: The [Port Arthur News] image displayed the spelling
> "tempermental" instead of "temperamental".
>

It's a pronunciation-spelling. That's the way that folks talk in Po
Daahthuh. I lived there for a spell.


-- 
-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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