Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!stu16 From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.misc Subject: Re: Re: Re: Sentences easily misunderstood when heard Message-ID: <848@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 09:37:52 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.848 Posted: Tue Nov 26 09:37:52 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Nov-85 06:28:16 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <1900005@datacube.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.nlang:3798 net.misc:8929 > Better buy perfect Topeka beagle buffers > Topeka beagle buffers sputter fiber beaks > Effeter fiber beaks abetted feeble puppies > Worst Topeka beagle puppies feature viper-pique. First of all, where IS Ron Hardin these days? Haven't seen him in at least 11 years---when he used to roam the hallowed halls of Bell Labs in his orange motorcycle coveralls. Anyway, lots of years ago there was a radio program in the NYC area that featured a person who could pinpoint a person's place of origin in the US by the way said person pronounced the following: Marry merry Mary Murry. Of course we NYers pronounced each word differently. -- whuxl!stu16 (mamawitch)