Heard: "dog pound" > "dog pond"

[Laurence Horn]

No relation to the "sliding pond" (= 'slide') we hung out at in the playground in NYC (from the Dutch?  from "slide upon"?)

LH

On Apr 30, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> When I was a kid in StL, "dog pond" was the reinterpretation of "dog pound"
> in the local BE. Just heard "dog pond" used by Paul Guilfoyle, a native of
> Canton, MA. He plays the character, "Police Captain Jim Brass," on CSI.
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