"No pork on my fork"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Tue Jun 21 12:13:37 UTC 2005


Oh, man, Bill beat me to it.

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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>>
>> And that would have been the KO-re-un war . . . (strong emphasis on
>> the initial syllable)
>>
>
>Needless to say, I don't think that you'll have any problem believing
>that the same people who say "JAY pan" also say "KO rea." ;-)
>
>-Wilson

"Japan" doesn't seem to throw folks around here. However, there is a =
town 20 miles
south of Huntsville called "Arab" --- pronounced "AYE-rab". =20


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