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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , Mary at wrote on 9/1/04 1:44 PM: "KellyH" wrote in message news:xooZc.219218$8_6.180532@attbi_s04... "Mary" wrote in message m... She'll be feeling what we call "puny" here in the south. :0) I had no idea "puny" was a Southern thing! I said that to someone around here (MA/NH border region) and they had no clue what I was talking about. Then again, I never thought of Maryland (where I'm from) as being the South. Never knew I had an accent, either. -- I grew up in Maryland and yet never heard "puny" used for "sickly" until I moved to North Carolina--but I lived mostly in the city-- I think the rural places in MD might be more southern. I believe Cheryl is also from Maryland. None of my family is from the south, but we have used the term "puny". We read a lot though. Maybe we picked it up from books. I could be wrong! It could be one of those ASSumptions, you know? |
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