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

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 27 13:03:25 UTC 2018


For some of us, all tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are
tennis shoes.

On Feb 26, 2018 11:06 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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!😳
> --
> -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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