vaca

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:27 PM -0400 6/29/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>Last night on The Daily Show, Claire Danes remarked that she had
>been enjoying a "vaca" [veke] in Hawaii.  I had never heard that
>clipping, and it's not recorded in UrbanDictionary.com.  Among lots
>of Spanish cows, Google yields a limited humber of tokens (search
>the phrase "vaca in Hawaii" (or some other popular destination).
>
>--Charlie
>_____________________________________________________________
I heard that too.  I think you want to check under "vacay", which not
only eliminates those Spanish cows but brings in the
UrbanDictionary.com entry and 141,000 other hits.  (Or thereabouts.)

LH

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