At 03:59 PM 8/31/99 -0700, Aldon Nielsen wrote:
>Ah, and now we learn of just the sort of regional variant that makes
>ppoetics such an exacting task. In the old Baltimore ball field (haven't
>been to the new one yet), it was pronounced "rubies."
I'm glad you cleared this up. I was scratching my head after your
last post thinking that 'ruby' was maybe some chess term I didn't
know. You folks up in Bal'mer sure talk funny!
--
Brett Zombro
(an unreconstructed Senators fan who
generally stayed away from Baltimore ball fields)
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