hiving

[Wilson Gray]

Your opinion of that site is certainly correct, Grant. I thought that
any confusion of "Angles" with "angels" had been cleared up at least a
millenium ago.

-Wilson

On 1/17/07, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2007, at 00:32, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> > I've been inactive on the list the last couple of weeks because my
> > wife and I had a baby on 28 Dec.  Not much time for internet, as
> > you can imagine.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> > My mom visited us this weekend, and the baby made a smiling face at
> > her.  I said, "Look, he's grinning at you."  She said, "No, he just
> > hiving."
>
> DARE doesn't seem to have it, but I turn up this rather awful thread
> on Yahoo:
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> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060904220321AAmWDkm
>
> Its main value is giving the alternate form "hivey."
>
> Grant Barrett
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