Date:  Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:16:06 EST

From:  flanigan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: three threads



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  Date: 08-Feb-1996 07:14pm EST



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  From: Beverly Flanigan              Dept: Linguistics

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Subject: three threads





  Color me rural. Growing up in Minnesota in the 40s and 50s, I heard my

  mother and her sisters regularly say "five and dime," "dime store,"

  "Monkey Ward" (no -s), and "I don't chew my cabbage twice" (as an

  admonition to us not to ask her for repeats or to delay obeying some

  command). Interestingly, I don't recall hearing my father use these

  phrases--perhaps because men didn't frequent those stores as much as

  women did? Nor was he prone to aphorisms, unless they were in Swedish.

                    --Beverly (Olson) Flanigan







Received: 08-Feb-1996 07:16pm