Seen on Twitter: "Tim Whoretons"

Tue Mar 27 00:24:29 UTC 2012

On Mar 26, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:

> Seen on twitter earlier: Ontario's legalized brothels will be called Tim
> Whoretons
>
> --
Named for the donuts' holes, I assume.  (Are there any speakers, in Ontario or elsewhere, who can disambiguate the two meanings without the use of orthography or context?)

LH

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