Oh, buoy! A Dialect!

Elliott A Moreton elliott at linguist.umass.edu
Sun Jul 9 18:49:23 EDT 2000


> JJ: I was under the impression that honey remained in fine condition for an
> essentially indefinite length of time (or at least for thousands of
> years).

What's the story here?  Has someone dug up ancient Egyptian honey still 
edible?
 
> Eric: I understand the Australian "paper money" is in fact made of plastic, and
> so would not be ruined by exposure to salt water....

Precisely!  The Australians are the first English-speaking country to 
recognize mollag as a problem serious enough to merit both a name and a 
solution.

-- em, playing to lose until he defends his dissertation



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