ADS-L Digest - 10 Nov 2013 to 11 Nov 2013 (#2013-314)

[Amy West]

On 11/12/13 12:07 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:37:42 -0500
> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: Re: Q: "lanechtskipt"
>
> As I will note in a later message, my blunder.  It is indeed "bare"
> -- and probably meant as a plural -- although incorrectly, since
> black and white bears are different species.  (If it's singular, I
> can only imagine that the polar bear of this list was seen as having
> some brown in its hair.)
>
> Joel
Why can't "black & whight bare" be a panda bear?

---Amy West

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