Square from Delaware, etc

[Laurence Horn]

>At 9/4/2008 04:16 PM, Brian Hitchcock wrote:
>>Re the below:  What sense is "lane" being used in, that rhymes with
>>"Spokane"? (ie, with  "man", "can", etc)?
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>Local Area NEtwork?
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>Joel

which is why that's spelled LAN, not LANE.



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>>1939 _New York Amsterdam News_ [Dan Burley's "Backdoor Stuff"] 27 May
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>>20/1 "Lawd! I'm a square from Delaware, a Lane from Spokane, a killer
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>>from Manila and a Home from Rome," Allen Drew beats out.
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