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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 29 21:24:56 UTC 2015


"... it sticks in their _crawl_. And they have a very large _crawl_!"

by someone from Wake County, NC.

Unfortunately, "craw" is less common in literature than "cow" is and he
hasn't been as lucky as I was. I made the cowl > cow shift *before* I had
occasion to write it.
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-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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