DARE Article in WSJ

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/21/2012 07:42 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>Thanks, john! I have it, now.
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 in the South, house moss 
"
>
>Whew! That's a load off! Because house moss is so seldom a topic of
>conversation and, IME, when people do talk about it, they say, "dust
>bunnies," I'd begun to wonder how I could have come to have "house
>moss" in my lexicon. Now, I reckon that I must have learned it very
>early in my East-Texas childhood
>--
>-Wilson

But can you say "South house moss" three times
rapidly?  "North dust bunnies" is no problem.

Joel

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