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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: anglish is a musing
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 09:02:06 EST
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> (rude line eater)
> 
> One often finds transferences in people who learned their language skills
> more from audible means (discussion, TV) than from visual means (books,
> newspapers).  Friend of mine grew up thinking there was a time of day
> known as susmornin. "How are you susmornin?"  And one of the people here
> at work has a wonderful story about her younger days at church when she
> was convinced that the priest was praying "Me a cowboy, me a cowboy, me
> a Mexican cowboy" instead of "mea culpa".  And there is a wonderful
> transposition of words in the pledge of allegance, supposedly attributed
> to an asian youngster that ends "with liberty and just rice for all."
> I guess when you are 8 and bored out of your mind, anything makes sense.

	Then there was the psalm William Safire wrote about in one of
his books - "Shirley, good Mrs. Murphy, shall follow us..."
-- 
  

jcpatilla

"'Get stuffed !', the Harlequin replied ..."