Posted on 04/30/2005 12:05:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 04/30/2005 12:28:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Jennifer Wilbanks, a Georgia woman missing since Tuesday night, has been found alive and well in New Mexico, a friend of the family told CNN.
Wilbanks was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and told her family she had been abducted and taken there, according to John Kim, a friend of Wilbank's family.
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I feel that charges may be filed. If there IS a third party in this and the reason was anything other than her avoiding the wedding. We haven't heard everything in this one by a long shot.
No Problem:
Ho-hum.
Dear Word Detective: A person my mother works with thinks his son is a genius because he asked "Why do we call a yawn a yawn, Daddy?" and no one has found an answer for him. Please help me. Why do we call it a "yawn"? -- Rachel in Missouri.
Someone should tell your mother's colleague to read a few books on parenting. The appropriate answer to that question, and many, many others posed by children, is "because."
Just kidding. That question is a good one, and typical of the innocent yet perplexing puzzles children often come up with, which is why I try to avoid hanging out near kids.
"Yawn" is an interesting word. At first glance, it seems as though it might be an "echoic" or "onomatopoeic" formation, a word that sounds like the thing or action it describes, along the lines of "boom," "growl" or "thump." If you say "yawn" very slowly ("yaaawwnn"), it sounds a bit like someone yawning. Incidentally, is everyone yawning by now?
But (time to wake up, gang) "yawn" is not echoic, although it is very old. The source of "yawn" was the Indo-European roots "ghei" or "ghi," which gave us the Old English words "ginian" or "geonian," which were probably pronounced as something close to "yeen" and "yoan" and meant "to gape or yawn." In its early appearances in Modern English, "yawn" meant either to gape (as with one's mouth) or to be wide open (as a chasm or abyss). Our modern gee-I'm- sleepy meaning of "yawn" first appeared about A.D. 1450
Oops! Another Fox gong!
Defeats the purpose.
No flatware? Well, that explains everything!
ROTFL!
What patterns are classic?
lol...
LOL, all those invites and no flatware.
Bolt!
Yes, I know I that, I have driven ALL those roads, many times.
Ebay has silver at good prices. I have filled in a few serving pieces from there. I have seen sets sell really afordably there too.
Can you blame them? Someone might pitch in and buy them a set of plastic sporks and knives.
When did she buy the ticket to NM?
Nice summation ;^D
Ah....thanks.
Haven't heard that one yet.
Can't wait to see Jennifer's hair.
;-)
Couldn't tell that from your posts.
LOL ;^D
If you'll eat an order of Three Mile Island hot wings from Hooters, Anjolina Jolie would be jealous of your lips - and there only $8.99. ;-)
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