Anglo mis-stressing

[augerot]

Better: "dogs feed on ya".

-- 
jim 

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Alina Israeli wrote:

> On May 11, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Meredig, John wrote:
>
>> This latest thread brings to mind the mnemonic devices in English used
>> to remember various words and phrases in Russian, such as "Nice
>> driveway!", "yellow blue tibia", and the infamous "Does your ass fit
>> ya!" (supposedly taught to American soldiers in the Second World War so
>> they could greet their Russian allies--say it really fast and it works
>> passably. I suspect the story may be apocryphal. It sounds too good to
>> be true--can anyone vouch for its authenticity? I do use it on Day One
>> of beginning Russian and it never fails to make an impression).
>> 
>> Perhaps there are more such phrases out there?
>
>
> Dogs feet on you.
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