" Olive, the other reindeer"

[Charles Doyle]

It wasn't the r-lessness that confused me, I think; it was the vowel, [j@] instead of [ju] for "you."

--Charlie
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>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:01:46 -0400
>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
>Subject: Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>Poster:       "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
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>I also do not have r-deletion, but I got this one immediately (in the 12th century when I first heard it). Maybe I had a more flexible ear when I was a Ute.
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>dInIs


>>Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>>
>>Try this one, dInIs. It's one of those old title-author jokes (it doesn't work at all in my dialect; I can't remember how long it took me to "get it"):
>>
>>_School Lunches_, by Maj. Sick.
>>
>>--Charlie

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