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To: Gauguin who wrote (51345)	5/27/2000 2:01:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I think Jacuzzi would be a good name.<eom>

To: Gauguin who wrote (51345)	5/27/2000 2:09:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

"Make all our stuff into whiffle balls." How true, how true. Anthropologists/sociologists/linguists, something or other that studies language, people, and social class, can, or think they can, place the speaker in a social structure by the words they use for certain things. I LOVE to read stuff like that. To use Woody Allen's riff, love isn't a strong enough word, I LORF it, I LURG it, I LGNUF it. Sofa is standard American English. Divan is hoity-toity, giving oneself airs. Nothing is more a dead giveaway of being scared of losing social status than using prissy words like divan. I am not sure where couch fits in, but I am certain about divan. You divined something fishy when they used divan, didn't you?