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From: "Mike" <me@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Larf or Laf
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:46:20 +0100
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In other words.......how do you pronounce laugh?
Larf or Laff?
Bath or Barth?
"John of Aix" <j.murphy@libertysurf.fr> wrote in message
news:c59mhf$r52$2@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr...
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> th1g70dmj41gaajuqedbbkfv0fd9vbu532@4ax.com...
> > Help me settle a life time dispute.
> >
> > I say larf (laugh)
> > you say laff (laugh)
> >
> > Who is right?
> > Me or you?
> >
> > Me thinks both of us.
> >
> > When I was 15 y.o. my head of English said it was laf and laf only!
> > And so does the girlfriend.
> >
> > Me disagrees.
>
> It epends where you come from. Someone from the north of England wil say
> 'laff', from the south they will say 'larf'. They are both right of
course.
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