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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 8 04:07:06 UTC 2020


In the last, long-leaping line an NYT book-review by a native of New
Orleans:

"... sick at the stomach." I.e. "nauseated."

This is the phrase that I grew up using in East Texas. Never seen it in
print afore.

https://nyti.ms/3gEkdHZ

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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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