a word from "Huck Finn"

[Darla Wells]

Well, if that's all they took away from the book, that's just pitiful.
Darla

El 1 de marzo de 2012 17:32, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> escribió:

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> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > Ian Frazier in the March 5 _New Yorker_ (p. 26) has a brief article on a
> > "Community Dialogue" on Staten Island about a certain word that appears
> in
> > _Huckleberry Finn_.
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> > What could the word be? Frazier doesn't say.
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> > Anyway, "During the entire two-hour conversation, amost nothing from
> either
> > 'Tom Sawyer' or 'Huckleberry Finn' was discussed, except the word."
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> > Huh!
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> In the same issue, Joan Acocella writes of "baby-doll pajamas." Say what,
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