spaldeen

[sagehen]

Sorry.  My mistake entirely.  I read yours carelessly.
A. Murie
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>> David Colburn writes
>> ' so this is only evidence that "spaldeen" is widely known,'
>>
>> .......No, it isn't the "only evidence." Perhaps I should have dated &
>> located my earlier posting.  We used this expression in Nebraska in the
>> '30s, for that same rubber ball.
>> A. Murie
>
>Ah, but I didn't say "this is the only evidence" that spaldeen is widely
>known. Adding that little "the" alters the meaning of my sentence, and
>alters it to something that I don't believe and didn't mean to imply. I
>agree that we are swimming in evidence that the balls were called "spaldeen"
>by a lot of people, especially but not exclusively in (parts of?) New York
>City. My point was a narrower one, about what we can deduce from the
>"spaldeen" that I am pretty sure I saw printed on balls at a drugstore a few
>years back. It wasn't an important point, to be sure.  Sorry for being
>unclear about what I was trying to say.
>
>Cheers,
>David Colburn


A&M Murie
N. Bangor NY
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