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Re: Tell me why

To: b-evans@earthlink.net information
Subject: Re: Tell me why
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:48:09 -0500
Cc: Spridgets <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <43A1ACDF.2020307@earthlink.net>
Buster, go look n the archives, I asked this same question a couple  
years ago after being told by an englishman (best man at me wedding)  
that the LEC was the "more correct" term. I got attacked as you  
likely will ;-)

Say no more, say no more.

Larry


On Dec 15, 2005, at 12:50 PM, b-evans@earthlink.net wrote:

> Tell me why people own classic cars insist on calling them "LBC" or  
> "Little British Cars"?  Let's get it straight folks, they are LEC's  
> or Little English Cars.  They were not made in Wales, they were not  
> made in Scotland, they were not made in Northern Ireland, they were  
> not made in the Channel Isles.  They were made in ENGLAND!
>
> Tell me why people who own what are now known as "Mark I" Sprites  
> use English terms such as bonnet, hood, cheerio, etc., still refuse  
> to call the cars by their ENGLISH name:  Frogeyes?  That is  
> FROGEYE, as in frogs, as in Kermit!  After all, they are far more  
> loveable than a flie or mosquito!  Or cockroach!
>
> Buster Evans
>

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Larry Macy
78 Midget

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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
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Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104

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