gapless relatives

[Wilson Gray]

"... [ex]  a guy who if he pierced his ears he would have gravy running out
of them"

this is "standard" in BE. Seeing such a string included among examples of
oddities really took me by surprise.

Youneverknow. :-(


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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