foist>hoist

B W Kane bkane4 at VERIZON.NET
Sat Jul 22 16:52:07 UTC 2006


Further to discussion of that oist pronunciation, I can still recall, after the passage of more than 50 years, overhearing on a Manhattan street corner one block north of the Library, a conversation that included the sentence, The foist time was an emoigency. Localism?

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