hi all At 18:51 2000/12/06 +0100, sumwun almost but not quite named mary's child seems to have wrote: >"Boob" is, to some, a pejorative word when it is >applied to the female breast. Just like "girl" is >considered pejorative to an adult female." Life >must be very complicated in the US. How do you >communicate? Maryse Schild this comment could be construed as a slur on the use of the english language in the usa can we not respect and celebrate our differences instead of perpetuating the divisive "one-ups-manship" game? cainte we enjoy langwidge and axe-haintes and habitchewashuns widdout puttyn'em down? bill bryson does a 'devastatingly funny' job of just that how about pd? any news on that front? just a suggestion, of course(!) janet janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now /44 dx cd / 43 onset cd /41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/