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From: "Barb Wylie" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Warsh and wrench
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:43:37 -0600
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<(I have tried hard to train myself to say wash, dishwasher, and washing
machine, without that warsh-thing, but it still slips out occasionally.)>

Carolyn, do you then WRENCH the soap off with clear water? If I offered to
hep you with this task, would you understand that I was offering to assist
you?

When I lived in Georgia, people didn't drive their children to school or
take them to school; they carried them to school.

Texans talk about having a tank in each pasture; turned out to be the same
thing we call ponds. In pre-internet days, John and I arrived in Lebanon,
New York before the town clerk's office opened. Since we knew his Moses
Wylie was buried in the cemetery "above the reservoir," we decided to drive
down Reservoir Road. How hard could it be to spot a lake in a little town
like that? We learned the hard way that their reservoir is just an ordinary
pond. Reservoir Road was so named because of the many ponds that catch run
off from higher elevation.

It always pays to know what the word meant where, when and by whom it was
used.

Barb Wylie in Grand Prairie, Texas, where it's nearly midnight and I'm
a-fixin' to get some sleep



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