flying saucer and other critters

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if either the race or the orientation is in any way related
> to their vocabulary

Of course they are. How could they not be? Isn't rhere a relationship
between your personal background and your vocabulary?

For, example, that the "OED only has the verb referring to kicking
*customers* out of a bar or restaurant" is news to me. I had no idea
that the term is supposedly so restricted.

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-Wilson
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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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