very minor note on "lady"

[victor steinbok]

That's probably because most of us hear it as "bag woman", not to be
confused with equally notoriously diagnostic "bagman".

VS-)

--"By God, woman! What more do you want from me?!"

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think this thread has mentioned the notoriously diagnostic "bag
> lady."
>
> JL

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