Chile

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, the good old days in the day.

JL

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > Back in my day (1950s), "Chile" was pronounced like "Chilly."
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> > "Chilean" was pronounced as "chillyin."
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> As Ike Turner once noted,
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> "Those were the good old days!"
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> (I'd have expected, "_Them was_ the good old days." But, since "Those
> were ..." was already a well-worn cliche, perhaps he just decided to
> go with standard, as a change of pace.)
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