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And, with that, you can consider the silence broken four shore.

Larry

As fore the Coupe, I felt reel bad four too days.  Then along came
9-11, and the towers came down.  Then I felt reel good that I had
delivered
it already and had knot waited four a couple moor days.  Didn't feel bad
then, cause nobody was flyin
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From: "Jack Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Coupes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [COUPERS] utter silence!!


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any
advice in this forum.]----
>
> > I'm sure you meant to say "udder" silence.
>
> Larry:
>
> No, that's one of them there trick words.
>
> Back to English 415.
>
> You should have learned about words like this in school.  Like To, Too
and
> Two.  They all sound the same thing, even if they are spelled rong.
It's
> one of them "onym" words, of some sort.  (An't-onym or sin-onym.)
>
> The real bad words are like, wind and wind.  See, these are spelled the
> same, but they sound different.  (You can't see the wind blow, but you
can
> wind up a garden hose.  Or, if you keep flying coupes into strong cross
wind
> you're going to wind up getting hurt).  I think these are called
Homo-nym.
> Words like these started in San Francisco, they can go both ways.
>
> The words that will get you into trouble are Sin-onyms.  These are kind
of
> double talk words, saying the same thing two different ways.  Washington
> folks use these a lot - "I didn't raise your taxes" or  "I increase the
> Government's revenues".  Either way they said you were screwed.  These
are
> Sin-onyms, basically lies.  (So Sin-onym is a sinonym for lie).
>
> The other type is An't-onym.  It mean opposite.  This word is from the
rural
> areas of the country.  They are straight forward on making a point.  If
it
> an't black, it's white.  If you an't right, then you are wrong.  Thus
the
> name "An't"-onym.
>
> Now, since I've said something about the folks in San Francisco and
> Washington there should be plenty of "Jack Bashing" going on in the list
for
> a while.  We may have something to talk about.
>
> Hope you are well and not missing you coupe to bad.  Sure it hurt for
the
> first few weaks  (nother one of those onym words).
>
> Jack
>
>
>

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