Card-game names

[Barnhart]

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Wednesday, March 08,
2006 at 11:14 PM -0500 wrote:
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>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject:      Card-game names
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>Is it simply "hearts" or is it "dirty hearts"?
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>Is it simply "eights" or is it "crazy eights"?
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>Is it "acey-deucey" or is it "in-between"?
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>Is it "bid whist" or is it "kitty whist"?
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>And there's an alternate name for the game, "spades," that I can't
>recall at the moment.
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>-Wilson Gray
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