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

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 16 02:09:34 UTC 2015


It's the lack of teeth.  Why else would you delete dentals?

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> I would most naturally say "a box lunch"--not "a boxed lunch."  But we
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> > On Nov 14, 2015, at 10:04 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> =3D
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> > another ice cream compound.
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> and with the same cluster simplification helping it along
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> /ksts/ > /ks/  box set
> /stkr/ > /skr/ ice cream
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