"The Battle of Bataan" heard as

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Ba-TAN.
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> But Ba-TAHN has been gaining for quite a while.
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> JL

Inevitable.  It's called passing the ba-TAHN to a new generation.

LH

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> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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>> Wilson Gray wrote:
>>> "the Battle of buh-TAHN"
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>>> IIRC, it used to be "the Battle of buh-TAN"
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>>> but I may be wrong, since even I was but a tad, in those days.
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>>> Bueller? Anyone?
>> "We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan,
>> No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam,
>> No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
>> No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces,
>> And nobody gives a damn!"
>>   -- Frank Hewlett
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>> I'd say that your memory is probably correct.
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>> Jim Parish
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