Vowels Now Legal in TN

Peter McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Mon Jul 12 16:00:32 UTC 1999


On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:38:06 -0400 "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTK.EDU>
wrote:

> I know that most of you think that Tennessedans have too many vowels.
> However, the state Department of Safety has been vowel-deprived until
> recently. It has been llegal to include vowels among the letters used in
> general issue license plates.

So once again, popular perceptions are the very OPPOSITE of the truth:
far from having too many vowels, obviously it's consonants that
Tennessedans (and wagons, and sports cars and SUVs, and probably even
pickups) have too many of!  :)

Peter Mc.

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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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