eleventy-seven

[George Thompson]

Thanks.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Parish <jparish at SIUE.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 9:24 pm
Subject: Re: eleventy-seven
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> George Thompson wrote:
> > However, one lassie allowed that she had never been to the Derby (or
> perhaos
> > Preakness), but that her husband had been to "eleventy-seven".
> > Is this a familiar variant?
>
> I vaguely associate it with Winnie-the-Pooh. Google gives numerous
> hits, mostly from
> people talking about WtP, but some of them are for "eleventy-seventy".
>
> Jim Parish
>
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