Line cut?

[David Colburn]

According to the urban legend trackers at snopes.com, lion cuts are a
standard grooming technique -- but snopes is skeptical of the "line cut"
story, saying they've found no evidence of any such term...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/lioncut.asp

-David Colburn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: Line cut?


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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> Ron Butters writes:
> >If you still have the foto of the cat with the lion cut, I'd love to see
it.
> >
> >The difference between LION and LINE as pronounced in the South Midlands
is
> >very hard for ousiders to hear.
> >
> >In a message dated 2/26/03 1:41:50 PM, dcamp911 at JUNO.COM writes:
> >
> >
> >>  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)
> >  >
> It's at http://infinitemonkey.org/funny/cats/linecut.html
>
> I suspect an urban legend, but one never knows.
>
> L
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