[Ads-l] [boxed set >] "boxset"

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 15 22:10:12 UTC 2015


CCD:  << I would most naturally say "a box lunch"--not "a boxed lunch."
But we Southerners are simple folks (it's the humidity). >>
WB:  And you'd never find a box lunch in a lunch box. (How many lunches
could a lunch box box, if a lunch box could box lunch?)

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