[Ads-l] "Downsight"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 30 02:48:03 UTC 2014


On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> the /'laiz@/s I've met spell it "Liza".


How else might they spell it? Well, "Lyza," "Lieza," etc., I guess.

Youneverknow.

As a pre-teen, I once knew a girl named "Ccil," pronounced "Cecil." Or
should that read,

... named "Cecil," spelled "Ccil."

Younenerknow.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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