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Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:18 pm
by JohnMD1022
Being a native Virginian, I call them possums.
The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:12 am
by Theroe
Both of you - very funny
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Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:30 pm
by Mike62
JohnMD1022 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:18 pm
Being a native Virginian, I call them possums.
The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.
We talk funny?! Growing up on the Canadian border just below Fort Kent, as kids we thought that the Mason/Dixon line was route 2 from Bangor across to Burlington, Vermont; and everybody below that line was unintelligible.
Interestingly enough, the Acadian French word for Opossum is ..., Opossum. I'm not French so I say 'Possum'. My drunken Irish ancestors would have called it 'Apasam', which, when sounded out colloquially, comes out: Oh, look, 'A Possum'!
It's a moot point; we don't have any.
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:33 pm
by JohnMD1022
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:16 am
by Mike62
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