"And last but not _lease_ ..."

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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

My bad! I should have made clear that this was excerpted from an
e-mail posted  to /. and not something from the wild, such that I
might well have misheard it.

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