[Ads-l] "strand" = strain

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN just now: "contracted a vicious strand of the Ebola virus."

JL

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> I was sure I'd posted something on this years ago, but the Archives are
> silent.  No matter.
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> Around 1999-2000 I heard a local woman talking about "a different strand of
> the flu."  She meant "strain."
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> On this week's _Bad Girls Club_, two of the principals, one from Boston and
> one from LA, both very clearly spoke of  a "strand of the swine flu."
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> The excresecent / d / was quite audible.
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> JL
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