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Geoffrey Layton <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:18:56 -0600
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A good holiday topic!  Here's a creative comment, although not 
etymologically based, from a student catching a few z's in the back row, 
when called out of his somnolent state:  "I'm not sleeping.  I just blink 
real slow!"

Geoff Layton


>From: "Veit, Richard" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar              
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>Subject: For you fans of folk etymology
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:46:43 -0500
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>Student Excuse Awards: Best New Disease
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>My wife received this email:
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>Hello Mrs. Veit.
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>How are you doing... I hope better than myself.
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>I actually have a walking ammonia! No wonder I'm so ill right? I, of
>course, have doctors notes for you....
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>On the positive side, her windows are very clean.
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>Dick Veit
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>________________________________
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>Richard Veit
>Department of English
>University of North Carolina Wilmington
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