Burchfield's Fowler (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another of the wonders revealed so long ago by HDAS s.v. KMA (IIRC).

"Royal Canadian" is a version known in the land of health-care slavery.

JL

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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:
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> >>  > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> >>  > Behalf Of George Thompson
> >>  > Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:36 PM
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> >>  > Subject: Re: Burchfield's Fowler
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> >>  > K. M. R. I. A., (says Myles Crawford, in Ulysses.  This is the
> English
> >>  > major breaking out in me again.)
> >>  >
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> >>  Kiss My Red Itchy Ass?
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> >>  I read Portrait of the Artist in high school, but never got around to
> >>  Ulysses.  What does it stand for?
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> >Royal Irish.
> >
> And technically the A stands for "arse".
>
> LH
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