Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mgwess.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgwess!plw From: plw@mgwess.UUCP (Pete Wilson) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: On "orphaned" words. Message-ID: <14889@mgwess.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 18:42:31 EST Article-I.D.: mgwess.14889 Posted: Tue Apr 9 18:42:31 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Apr-85 06:10:34 EST References: <7169@watdaisy.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois Lines: 4 Then, of course, there is "hunker" as in 'I'd better hunker down and get to work'. Is this a localism or is it prevalent elsewhere......