[Ads-l] Odd emphasis?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 8 14:18:32 UTC 2018


Fred Astaire, in _You'll Never Get Rich!_ (1941) explains that "I was sent
from Washington to make a general surVEY of Army camps."

First time I ever heard *that*.

He didn't need a perMIT, either, in old Los Angheleez.

JL



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