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From: halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Longest one syllable word.
Message-ID: <824@houxz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-May-84 11:01:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 11:01:01 1984
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Boy, all you fuddy-duddies have absolutely no sense of humor.
I got the joke immediately.  Sh*t is most certainly the longest
one syllable word, not spatially, but temporally.  Try saying
it the way they do in certain parts of the country.  It takes
a full second at least.  Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*t, are you folks dumb.