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From: jamesl@netcom.com (James Logajan)
Subject: Re: Tablespoons (was: degrees Celsius)
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John Winters (john@polo.demon.co.uk) wrote:
[Much trivia on spoons elided]
: (Spoon is one of those words which goes all funny if you look at it
: for too long.)

Then there are Spoonerisms, such as saying Flutterby instead of the correct
(but just as silly) Butterfly.

By the way, interesting as this trivia on spoons is, what is thread doing
in any of the listed groups, except maybe alt.usage.english?
