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by vbrizendine
Wed May 04, 2011 8:39 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: understand
Replies: 1
Views: 4507

understand

before 900; Middle English understanden, understonden, Old English understondan; cognate with Dutch onderstaan. To have a comprehension allows one to "stand upon" it or to take a "stand." It is the "under" part of this word confuses me. There is a suggestion that the r...
by vbrizendine
Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:04 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Soft Drinks: pop, soda, coke, et al
Replies: 84
Views: 563959

Outstanding information on soda v. word

Jump to the website http://www.popvssoda.com/ for the graphical display of what to call a fizzy drink. I have lived for years in Missouri and it was either soda or coke. In Columbus OH we call it pop. I love my friends from the deep South that call it co-cola.

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