HUMOR Re: pseudacorus varieties
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: HUMOR Re: pseudacorus varieties
- From: t*@Lanl.GOV (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:04:16 -0600
Robert writes
:Yes I grew up with the missed pronounced variety! (+:). Back home growing up
:as a kid in Louisiana, Mama always threw out the dish water from the back
:door onto the I. pseudacorus.
I expect it was the contaminants in the dish water that gave rise to
the mispronunciation. Some kind of spontaneous mutation.
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