[Ads-l] Heard: _earshot_ > "hearshot"

[Laurence Horn]

> On May 11, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I'd guess, a haycorn from "earshot”.

Or the result of a simple mis-earring.
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:24 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "We talked to all the neighbors within _hearshot_ of the barking."
>> hearing X earshot?
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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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