Matrushka; Hryvna

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:03 PM -0400 7/18/02, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>#LAYING POLICEMAN--a speed bump.  Said by my tour guide, when asked if
>#the bumps in the road have a slang name.
>
>We first heard "sleeping policeman" for these in Jamaica in 1972.
>
No doubt "lying policeman" (grammatically more "correct" than laying)
is blocked by homonymy...

larry