[net.nlang] Sentences easily misunderstood

grass@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/19/85)

>	*hallard      /hael0rd/    (rhymes with `mallard', as duck)
>	*harrowed     /haer0wd/    (rhymes with `narrowed')
>*these do not exist in English, but they `could'
>
>-michael

Harrowed does exist in English.  A harrow (spring or disk) is an instrument
farmers use to bust up the soil.  To harrow is to use one of these in your
fields.  eg.  "Have you harrowed yet?  No, its still too muddy"

*hallard may not exist, but halyard/ haliard do.. /haely0rd/.  Is that close
enough?
	- Judy Grass,  University of Illinois - Urbana
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