Dr. Jonas Sock

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Mon Mar 28 13:08:43 UTC 2011


Why, Wilson, simplify spelling, of course, and control what other people do with their lips and tongues!

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On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dr Jonas _Sock_
>
> Not-speaking-the-subdialect-of-American-English-that-*I*-consider-to-be-the-proper-one
> people have been annoying me with this for dekkids, like people who
> don't distinguish "horse" from "hoarse" or "cot" from "caught."
>
> What can you do, except to grin and bear it?
>
> --
> -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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