Burchfield's Fowler (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:56 PM -0400 8/12/09, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>>  Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>>  Caveats: NONE
>>
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>  > Behalf Of George Thompson
>>  > Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:36 PM
>>  > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>  > Subject: Re: Burchfield's Fowler
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > K. M. R. I. A., (says Myles Crawford, in Ulysses.  This is the English
>>  > major breaking out in me again.)
>>  >
>>
>>  Kiss My Red Itchy Ass?
>>
>>  I read Portrait of the Artist in high school, but never got around to
>>  Ulysses.  What does it stand for?
>
>Royal Irish.
>
And technically the A stands for "arse".

LH

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