[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 4 Jan 2023 to 5 Jan 2023 (#2023-6)

[Amy West]

On 1/6/23 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 5 Jan 2023 09:50:05 -0700
> From:    Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Words that end in letter "v"
>
> If proper names (e.g. Kalashnikov) are included, we can Mav (‘member of Dallas Mavericks basketball team’) and Cav (‘member of Cleveland professional basketball team or of one  of University of Virginia teams’)
>
> Also (U.K.) “lav"

not strictly UK: I remember using it in elementary school in Buffalo.: 
"going to the lav"

But, yes, "lav".

---Amy West

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