"Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kriha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Frank Bures" <feeb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Otis Willie PIO The American War Library wrote:
>> > Czech military receives first Tatra lorries
>> > http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=304502
>> >
>> > {EXCERPT} Czech Happenings, Czech Republic Novy Jicin- The Czech
>> > military today
>> > received the first nine lorries from the Czech Tatra Koprivnice lorry
>> > maker,
>> > Jiri Stanek from the Defence Ministry said...
>> >
>> > http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=304502
>>
>> Lorry, what an exotic word...
>
> Yes, it's exotic word in the English speaking colonies like
> yours and mine. It's what they call trucks in the Auld Bwitain.
>
> When my son was about three or four, he kept pronouncing
> the word 'truck' as '****'. At times, it was quite disconcerting
> when in the middle of a dinner in a crowded restaurant, he
> would point out of a window and screamed 'daddy ****, ****'.
>
> We tried to make him switch to 'lorry', but he must have been
> already a rock solid kiwi republican and refused to budge.
>
> pjk
I am sure that you would not get divorced if you listened to your son....
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