aunt/ant

[Ed Keer]

A friend makes this distinction:

[ants] don't change diapers.

She also insists that she is an [ant].


--- Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:

> And one more anecdote:  When I was at the Stanford
> LSA institute way back
> in '87, I overheard a little African American girl
> talking with a white
> friend (obviously bosom buddies, maybe 8 years old).
>  She mentioned her
> aunt [ant], then quickly "translated" it for her
> friend as [aent]--quite
> aware, like Barbara, that the other girl might not
> understand her otherwise!
>



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