Line cut?

[Duane Campbell]

I pass this on in the spirit of recent posts on Southern speech. It came
to me with a photo. If anyone would like to see the photo, contact me off
list. (Cat lovers need not apply)

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Note:  This was not done on purpose (by the pet owner) and the cat
is fine and back to normal.


"My sister-in law is from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has
cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the
groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is
when all of the fur hanging down below the cat's tummy is taken off
(because it gets matted or snarled).


When she moved to Chicago with my brother, one of the cats fur got
all tangled up during the move so she took it in for a line cut. She
was quite surprised when she heard the price as it was twice as much
as it was down south. She confirmed with the groomer that he
understood what a line cut was and he said "yes, I know what a LION
cut is." It seems her accent came out sounding like LION not LINE
and this is how her cat was returned to her.  (see PHOTOS) She cried
for a week...but not as much as the cat. It was November in Chicago
and the cat needed all the fur it had."