_hep_ vs. _hip_, trivially revisited

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Berrey & Van den Bark

Clearly, then, these two had were never "nervous in the service"!
Surely, no one who has ever considered the mind-numbing boredom of a
two-hour session of dismounted drill could possibly consider "HEP!"
hep!

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