A dialect split

David Bowie db.list at PMPKN.NET
Thu Dec 18 14:04:26 UTC 2008


From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>

> I've already heard both "twenty-ten" and "two-thousand-ten."

Don't forget 2k10 [tu.ke.tEn].

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David Bowie                               University of Central Florida
     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.

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