three questions to find out where someone is from

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Aaron" and "Erin" are identical!  Everybody knows _that_!

But "Mary," "marry," and "merry" are as different as can be.

BTW, I "bunk" into things. Or did.

JL

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Grant Barrett <grantbarrett at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Oct 24, 2012, at 00:11, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > There aren't many of us left still speaking local-accent-free English!
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> I'm stealing this. May only get laughs at language conferences, but still.
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