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Re: Need Help With Possible Urban Legend on Baby Paternity

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Mac

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Nov 23, 2009, 1:02:01 AM11/23/09
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On Nov 22, 8:26 pm, ebenZERO...@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote:
> In article <kq8dg5drcptqtf39m74jga99p8sh0cs...@4ax.com>,
> John Hatpin  <RemoveThisjfhop...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>
> > Nick Spalding wrote:
>

> > My genetic oddity is that the last joint of my little fingers (US:
> > pinkies) is bent slightly, so that the final section of that finger
> > partly overlaps the fourth finger when my fingers are together.
>
> "Little finger" is just fine with this Leftpondian; "pinkie" is either
> (1) more slangy, or (2) the term used for baby mice IIRC.  Mine don't
> get perfectly straight, though I don't know how abnormal that is.

It isn't slang, but it isn't USAnian either. It's from Scots,
probably reinforced by New York Dutch (and ultimately Dutch
originally, as near as I can tell.) The word traveled faster from
Edinburgh to London when it went by way of New York, is all.

John Hatpin

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Nov 23, 2009, 9:25:23 AM11/23/09
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Mac wrote:

I've not heard it used in England, so it seems it's not got here yet.
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John Hatpin
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Lee

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Nov 23, 2009, 3:32:58 PM11/23/09
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On Nov 23, 9:25 am, John Hatpin


once it does, don’t let em know where you got it


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