"And last but not _lease_ ..."

[Herb Stahlke]

Could that have been "And las' but not lease"?  Normal final coronal deletion?

Herb

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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