Your post subject hits it on the head...
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Those puns are grisly...as is this.

In the U.S., dassent was generally associated with the South...and generally regarded as poor English and grammer and a sign of poor education. Not necessarily true, but I don't know an English teacher that would regard it well.

Yup, kited as in floated. Maybe that was the word choice since the topic was interstate as airstrip!

I hate when the facts get in the way of a good story!

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp

Waddaya mean by dat? Fugedaboutit!

Thank you, you are too kind--kinder than people who know me!
Maybe not wooly, but not very trim either...

I agree. We've nearly exhausted this subject. and it should be layed to rest. Put it to bed.

Dyslexics of the world untie!

The only verb form I can think of for pride is "prides"..
"he prides himself on his language skills."

It's called Extra Sensory Punception...
Magi, that is a good word. Thank you.

I like your new one! (I did have to read it more than once before the once long-ago used synapse fired...)
I liked your old one!

Just a guess here, but would the short translation be "It doesn't work"?

So how did the stevedores get such a reputation for toughness? Looking at the term's origin, stevedores should make us all feel warm and fuzzy.

...or all hot and itchy.

Even though the topic is the Rebel-Yankee Test, I wonder if we'll get a chance to hear some Russian spoken with a Southern drawl. :wink:[/quote] My wife taught ESL to Hispanic kids in Eastern Oregon during the '90s. My wife is a native Tennessean with a strong southern accent. I believe some years i...