"parap(@)legic"

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:35 PM -0400 5/21/07, James Harbeck wrote:
>>(I also say "ash-phault" for "asphalt.")
>
>Yup, that sounds like home to me! I said it that way until someone
>corrected me. Maybe it's because "ass fault" sounds naughty.
>
Yes, a foot fault is bad enough.

LH

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