[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Easter Bunny"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > The "a couple _of_ ..." of my lost youth has died out, apparently.
>
> Only apparently, Wilson, since that's the only way I'd ever say it.
>

God be praised!

One of the horrors of longevity is seeing a once-great language dissolve
into word-salad before one's very eyes and knowing that there is nothing
that one can do. :-(

-- 
-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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