The things you learn on NPR

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:16 PM -0400 9/1/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>  To appropriate a phrase from Wilson, "Youneverknow"
>
>Thank, you, Bill! But, to give credit where credit is due, the credit
>for introducing this to our pages is due to Larry.

Well, ultimately, to one time St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Joaquin
Andjar (the non-native speaker Wilson alludes to below).

LH

>
>I like Fats Waller's
>
>"One never knows, do one?"
>
>but, since it's a kind of joke, it got tiresome, after years of use.
>So, I've picked up, instead, on Larry's cite of
>
>"Youneverknow,"
>
>once referred to by a non-native-speaker as his "favorite English word."
>
>I admire Larry's restraint in not immediately making it clear that the
>credit was his and giving me a chance to "do the right thing," to coin
>a phrase.
>
>--
>-Wilson
>---
>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"--a strange complaint to
>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>-Mark Twain
>
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