[Ads-l] Facebookery: _huzzies_ "hussies"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 21 18:06:50 UTC 2018
I've never seen this word spelled with _zz_, before. But the only person
that I've known - he died ca. 1963 - who had _hussy_ in his active
vocabulary always pronounced it with /z/.
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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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