[Ads-l] Injia

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> (obs.?) pronunciation of "India"
>

I last heard it in a Britspeak comedy back in the '50's. An official of the
Raj used it while literally wrapping himself in the flag as protection
against the rifle-fire of Indian rebels. His thought was not that the Union
Jack was bullet-proof. Rather, he figured that the blackguards simply
wouldn't have the unmitigated gall to harm a single thread of the symbol of
Empaah.

He got his arse shah toff.


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-Wilson
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