Okra as a count noun

[Wilson Gray]

Well, to paraphrase Chevy Chase in the persona of Ronald Reagan, "You
have to *get down* with the colored people."

-Wilson

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Bill Palmer<w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> Waiting to be seen in the Eye Clinic at Duke U, I overheard another =
> patient telling his companion that he had been given a "bag of okras".  =
> He referred to "okras" a couple of more times, sort of the way you'd =
> refer to apples or tomatoes.
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>  70ish African American male, probably from NC. =20
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> I hadn't heard okra pluralized that way before.
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> Bill Palmer
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-Wilson
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