[Ads-l] Facebookery: "It's alive!"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 31 05:56:58 UTC 2018


>From a comment posted to A Way with Words:

"Growing up on the east coast I heard "deck-aid" all my life. But then in
2009 I moved to the upper midwest and started hearing "dek-kid" -- not
universally, but frequently enough that it's not a fluke."

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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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