Chimney

[Scot LaFaive]

I find myself (and I think others) using "realator" and "realtor"....I
think. Inserting the vowel sound just makes it easier to say, and my tongue
is fairly lazy.

Scot


>From: Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET>
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>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:32:35 -0500
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>And what's up with the oh-too-common use in these
>(central NY) parts of the 'word' realator?
>Members of the National Association of Realtors call
>themselves Realtors. Many people commonly misuse that
>term (to the occasional displeasure of NAR members) to
>refer to any member of the real estate-selling community,
>such as it is.
>But hereabouts, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone
>NOT saying realator -- even, oddly, members of the NAR!!
>--
>As might be said, in a more polite world, by a certain
>New Jersian whose name describe the high-pitched voice
>section of the choir...
>...Watch The Flock?
>--
>doug
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>On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:10:14 -0500, Scot LaFaive
><spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > FWIW, I'm aware of that word and use it jokingly here in WI (32 yr old).
> >
> > Scot
> >
> >
> >> From: Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET>
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> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> Subject: Re: Chimney
> >> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:12:34 -0500
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> >> Breastizez -- heard from a Westchester (NY) white 14-yr-old and a
> >> Brooklyn
> >> (NY
> >> black 13-yr-old. Neither BE or WE it would seem, but C (confused) E.
> >> doug
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