Bad Hair Day
Bob Haas
highbob at MINDSPRING.COM
Tue Jan 25 22:47:04 UTC 2000
Lynne, I get your point, and I think it's a good one. I guess that,
semantically, I just don't frame the phenomenon in the same way you do.
Rather than seeing the day as a bad one for hair, I guess I see it as a day
that causes bad hair.
cool
> From: Lynne Murphy <lynnem at COGS.SUSX.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:41:20 +0000
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Bad Hair Day
>
> In the same way, I think "bad hair day" is a bad day for hair,
> rather than a day of bad hair.
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