Just wondering

[Scot LaFaive]

For #2, I consider a pocketbook as a large wallet for women and a purse as a
bag with a shoulder strap.

Scot


>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: Just wondering
>Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:40:37 -0500
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>1) Is the pronunciation "bissep" [b at sEp] for "except" also used by
>white Southerners? Or is this a black thang that white follk wouldn't
>understand?
>
>2) Is there anyone for whom the words "pocketbook" and "purse" denote
>different objects? Not "can" or 'could," but _do_.
>
>-Wilson
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