Spoken during the Cleveland v. Dallas NFL game

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 22 03:15:38 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
<spanbocks at verizon.net> wrote:
> Berry

We both grew up in Saint Louis.

For most of my three-quarters of a century of life, my assumption has been that,

'loose : aloose :: 'round : around

Adding insult to injury, my spellcheck refuses to accept _aloose_,
though it accepts _'loose_, _'round_, and _around_.

Oh, well.

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