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[Laurence Horn]

At 11:24 PM -0500 5/11/05, Rex W. Stocklin wrote:
>At 11:56 PM -0400 5/11/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>
>>Well, I remember that onetime Pittsburgh Pirate Ralph Kiner, when he was a
>>Mets commentator, always said things like, "He lids the lig in RBIs"
>
>Here in Naptown, the jockcasters are given to saying ribbies
>(ribbys?). Is this just a local phenom or more ecumenical?

"Ribbies" for RBIs has been around for decades, and I don't believe
it's a regionalism.

Larry