A book that repays rereading

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:52 AM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
> I didn't recognize "mutha", so I hastened to vol. 2 of HDAS -- where I found it, under mootha.
>

Perhaps _mutha, mootha, mootah_  etc. are all merely variants of the same word.

[Yes, Ron, I understand that the obvious doesn't need to be pointed
out. Sorry about that.]

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-Wilson
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