"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbgk4o$voi$1@dont-email.me...
Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
AVOCARDOS 99¢
She opined that the sign could have appeared nowhere else.
Puzzle: Whereabouts did she live?
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"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbgk4o$voi$1@dont-email.me...
Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
AVOCARDOS 99¢
She opined that the sign could have appeared nowhere else.
Puzzle: Whereabouts did she live?
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"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbgk4o$voi$1@dont-email.me...
Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
AVOCARDOS 99¢
She opined that the sign could have appeared nowhere else.
Puzzle: Whereabouts did she live?
Chicargo
"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbgk4o$voi$1@dont-email.me...
Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
AVOCARDOS 99¢
She opined that the sign could have appeared nowhere else.
Puzzle: Whereabouts did she live?
Chicargo
"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbvp7s$s4s$1@dont-email.me...
On 6/12/2020 2:53 AM, gerson wrote:
"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbgk4o$voi$1@dont-email.me...
Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
AVOCARDOS 99¢
She opined that the sign could have appeared nowhere else.
Puzzle: Whereabouts did she live?
Chicargo
I think you're on the right track, but a few hundred miles off. Further hint (or giveaway): Where might you pahk youah cah?
Boston ?
On 6/30/2020 9:59 PM, gerson wrote:
"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbvp7s$s4s$1...@dont-email.me...
On 6/12/2020 2:53 AM, gerson wrote:
"Eric Sosman" wrote in message news:rbgk4o$voi$1...@dont-email.me... >>>
Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
AVOCARDOS 99¢
She opined that the sign could have appeared nowhere else.
Puzzle: Whereabouts did she live?
Chicargo
I think you're on the right track, but a few hundred miles off. Further hint (or giveaway): Where might you pahk youah cah?
Boston ?Give the man a cigah!
(It is a regional habit to drop the R after many vowel sounds,
so "avocados" sounds the way "avocardos" would be pronounced were the
latter a word. Some supermarket employee, instructed to make a sign
for the "avocado" sale, spelled it with the R he was sure ought to
have been there. I mean, theah.)
(It turns out my sainted mother may have been insufficiently
exposed to other regions. She was raised in the mid-Atlantic states, educated in the Midwest, and eventually settled in the Northeast;
only in the last did she note the dropped R. However, Wikipedia
mentions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English> several
other locales where droppage is common: The deep South, Britain, and
a few of those no-'count south-of-the-Equator backwaters. In her
defense, and to her possible credit, it must be said she never visited
them for any length of time.)
(Time to don my flameproof ovahcoat, I think.)
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