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- From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
- Subject: Re: Two bacon
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:16:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.221625.23420@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <1dq87lINN49@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1dq87lINN49@agate.berkeley.edu> henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken) writes:
- >New International (hah) House of Pancakes ad: "Two eggs, two bacon, ..."
- >
- >Two *bacon*???
- >
- >...
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- How about, "Would you two like coffees?" Not *coffee* but *coffees*.
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- Or the problem with the second person plural: In the south,
- it's y'all, in the northeast (sometimes) it is youse.
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