To: Osage Orange; perfect_rovian_storm
Ebonic Etymology:
"Proper respect" devolved to "propers" which again decayed to "props".
Eventually I suppose we'll just start saying "P" and leave it to the listener to deduce from context whether we mean "proper respect" or "urine".
155 posted on
08/24/2009 7:31:50 PM PDT by
ExGeeEye
(Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
To: ExGeeEye
Thx....I learnt som’in today.
188 posted on
08/24/2009 7:53:22 PM PDT by
Osage Orange
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