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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:46:36 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue,
- 29 Dec 92 09:31:03 -0600. <9212291533.AA15634@sics.se>
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- >We find my favorite candy. Normally they're not in boxes -- they're sold
- >individually in wrappers.
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- I'll have to pick something similar for the translation, then. Dixie Lee
- leaves a whole box of the things because he has a guilty conscience.
-
- >It seems odd to me to go through the Texas Panhandle between Louisiana
- >and N.M. I guess if you were going to northern N.M. you might go through
- >part of the Panhandle.
-
- Yes, they pass through Raton, which as we all know is way up north in
- New Mexico.
-
- >I guess it means that the heels are worn down -- probably unevenly -- i.e.,
- >part of the heel is thicker than another part.
-
- But if so, is this somehow significant?
-
-
- >Irritable? (I've never heard the expression -- the ? indicates that's a
- >guess.)
-
- "Irritable" doesn't fit. There are two passages:
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- a) "he wouldn't piss on a cop on the pad if he was on fire",
- b) "When you were a cop...how many guys were on a pad?"
-
- Hence my guess.
-
- >They're a little smaller than whole pepper corns.
-
- They're the same size here. But what is the derivation of "BB"?
-