CONtract/conTRACT

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:28 pm +0800 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> Isn't everyone (at least in this country) an ICE-cream speaker?  To
> join CE-ment and UM-brella, you could trade in your ICE-cream for
> PO-lice.

The UK is ice-CREAM, but as a north eastern USer, I say ICE-cream.

Another southern e.g. is INsurance.

Lynne

M Lynne Murphy
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