[Ads-l] Crooked number

[Mark Mandel]

I learned it by rhythm:
EM eye ess ess EYE ess ess eye PEE pee EYE

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 10:46 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> When I was a kid, my mom taught me how to spell "Mississippi":
>
> Em Eye Crooked Letter Crooked Letter Eye
> Crooked Letter Crooked Letter Eye
> Humpback Humpback Eye
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org