Date:  Sun, 8 Oct 1995 16:14:22 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Another Lexical Item



> back to the major point -- which were you told and which do you tell very

> young children at Halloween (when did we lose the apostrophe?) to go 'up'

> (?) in order to knock at doors and yell "Trick or Treat!"?



Mississippi children go up the sidewalk to knock on a door. But then I

guess that's obvious since I'm the one who learned only a few days ago

that not all sidewalks are called sidewalks some places.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

   answering two-day-old mail because I've been out of town sans

   computer