Multilingual Rhyming Slang

Thu Jan 2 22:46:19 UTC 2003

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Prof. R. Sussex wrote:

>         I've had a real Barry - nothing went right

Are you referring to traffic ticket procedures or New York Times
corrections here? :)

Fred Shapiro

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