[Ads-l] Heard: spoken by an Australian from New South Wales
Dave Hause
dwhause at CABLEMO.NET
Thu Nov 23 18:36:16 UTC 2017
618K raw G-hits for "pillowslip" and 28M for "pillowcase."
Dave Hause
-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Gray
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 12:01 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Heard: spoken by an Australian from New South Wales
"pillowslip" < _pillowcase_
Mildly surprising. "Pillowslip" was the ordinary term that I used as a
child, in East Texas. I have no idea whether this form is used anywhere
else in the U.S., bedclothes not being a particularly common topic of
conversation outside of the family. IAC, it seems to me that _pillowcase_
is the preferred term, in Yankspeak.
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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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