pronouns gone mad
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 9 02:21:45 UTC 2014
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> When did 'peeve' transform into a verb??
Bitterness doesn't become you, Dan. ;-) Should I have written that I had
already _petted_ about it? Lack of clarity in written discourse is hip,
anymore, and "peeted" in that context would have represented more of a
challenge to the reader. Or not.
Youneverknow.
[Youneverknow. - SI.com
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/.../index.htm
Jan 24, 1983 - Here's A Hot Dog You've Got To Relish. If there's any one
word that describes St. Louis Pitcher Joaquin Andujar, it would most surely
be "Youneverknow." Steve Wulf.]
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-Wilson
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