Synonymy avoidance

[Ed Keer]

I've only ever heard it as plain CH, so I was
perplexed.

--- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
>  Just idle speculation as to what would happen if
> the "standard"
> measurement unit, an RCH, (red cunt hair -- as in
> "move that over just a
> red cunt hair") were to be replaced with a BCH
> (blonde cunt hair).
>
> A red hair (henna, I Love Lucy) is thicker than a
> blonde hair (peroxide,
> Baywatch).
>
> Sorry if my sense of humor is too murky.  Well, I
> usually amuse myself.
>
> Bill
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society
> > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed
> Keer
> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:15 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
> >
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society
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> > Poster:       Ed Keer <edkeer at YAHOO.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: Synonymy avoidance
> >
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> >
> > Ok, I'd love to laugh, but I'm not getting the
> joke.
> > Help?
> >
> > --- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
> wrote:
> > > Not to mention that switching would require that
> the National
> > > Institute of Standards and Technology, (NIST,
> formerly the National
> > > Bureau of Standards, or NBS) would have to
> dissolve its "Henna
> > > Division", a cadre of mobile calibration
> standards  ready
> > to report to
> > > field sites all over America, and replace it
> with a "Peroxide
> > > Squadron", who would need to be trained and
> otherwise brought up to
> > > speed.  Plus, "I Love Lucy" would be pulled out
> of the Primary
> > > Standards repository and replaced with
> "Baywatch".
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: American Dialect Society
> > > > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> > > Jonathan Lighter
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:36 AM
> > > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > > Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------- Information from the
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> > > > Sender:       American Dialect Society
> > > <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter
> > > <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> > > > Subject:      Re: Synonymy avoidance
> > > >
> > >
> >
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> > > > -----------------
> > > >
> > > > Technically, yes. But the RCH appears to have
> been
> > > the
> > > > accepted measure for at least sixty years.
> Any
> > > switch to the
> > > > BCH standard would require extensive
> industrial
> > > recalibration
> > > > that could result in a slowing of economic
> growth.
> > > >
> > > > Cf. the ill-fated attempt to "go metric" many
> > > years ago.
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
> > > > James C Stalker <stalker at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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> > > > Sender: American Dialect Society
> > > > Poster: James C Stalker
> > > > Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
> > > >
> > >
> >
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> > > >
> > > > But isn't an RCH bigger than a BCH?
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > > Jonathan Lighter writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer "RCH."
> > > > >
> > > > > JL
> > > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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