[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 27 04:05:00 UTC 2018


"She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the whitest
_tennis shoes_."

This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
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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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