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Re: FW: For Your Amusement: RAS Syndrome

Subject: Re: FW: For Your Amusement: RAS Syndrome
From: Marc Sacks <msacks -at- world -dot- std -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:06:25 -0500



Robert Rinehart wrote:


I am very curious: Do you have tellers (you probably don't know) who say
"cent" instead of "cents", as in, "Here is seventeen dollars and fifty
cent."?
I think it's an Ebonics usage.

Marc Sacks
msacks -at- world -dot- std -dot- com


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