[Ads-l] Heard: _earshot_ > "hearshot"

[Mark Mandel]

I'd guess, a haycorn from "earshot".

MAM

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:24 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "We talked to all the neighbors within _hearshot_ of the barking."
> hearing X earshot?
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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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