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Old July 14th 08, 01:59 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Wayne Mitchell
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Default Losing my tuchas (OY-T)

wrote:

I wonder why English speakers do it one
way and Spanish speakers the other?


It's probably not a difference in the native language of the importers.
The biggest factor is probably whether the term was imported in an oral
milieu or a literary one.
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Wayne M.