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To: EveningStar; Kid Shelleen; Prov1322

In Philadelphia, masons often pronounce “masonry” as “masonary.” Sort of like the way many Fluffyans pronounce the name of the Acme grocery store: “ACK-a-mee.”


232 posted on 11/20/2016 6:29:47 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde; EveningStar; Kid Shelleen
Sort of like the way many Fluffyans pronounce the name of the Acme grocery store: “ACK-a-mee.”

Just can't wipe the Big Wide Grin off my face from seeing this and remembering my grandmother asking me to go to the ack-a-me (four blocks away) to pick something up for her.

She is the one person that I would never "correct" for saying "ack-a-me" not because I feared her but because I loved her and loved to hear her say that. Italians knew there were not enough vowels in the Acme name...

244 posted on 11/21/2016 7:26:25 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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