[Ads-l] YouTubery: "I guess you never heard of a _wheelbarrel_."

[Wilson Gray]

> As I’ve mentioned on the list, my wife (from Connecticut) regularly
refers to ours as a “wheelbarrel”, although > she has learned to read and
does so quite often.

She's a better man than I, Gunga Larry. I also caved when I looked up a
strange, new word, _marshmallow_, and discovered that it was both a plant
and the foodstuff that I had thitherto known as "maahsh-mella." OTOH, I was
able to intuit that _watermelon_ = "wada-millun" by myself. Or should that
be, "on my own"?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:32 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Apr 19, 2019, at 4:15 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > I guess that I'm not the only person to have interpreted "wheelbarrow" as
> > "wheelbarrel." But I didn't continue to think that after I learned to
> read.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
>
> As I’ve mentioned on the list, my wife (from Connecticut) regularly refers
> to ours as a “wheelbarrel”, although she has learned to read and does so
> quite often.  The web indicates she’s not alone.
>
> LH
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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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-- 
-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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