"Phil Carmody" wrote in message
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dpb writes:
BTDT Couldn't wear the T-shirt due to the straw down my back.
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"Straw" and "hay" are two different things...

To some people they may be, but to other people they
are not. Do not think that your chosen argot defines
everyone's language.

Phil, who really doesn't care about the presence or
absense of ******** hanging off any cows he sees.

May not make any difference in your life but it's still standard English and
not "argot". If you kid is going to do a craft project requiring straw and
you bring him or her hay then it's not going to work out very well. If said
kid has a pet rabbit and you bring it straw to eat instead of hay that's not
going to work out all that well either. And do take your camera to the hat
shop to record the expression on the hatter's face when you ask for a "hay
hat". And I'd like to see you drink soda through a hay.

It's not a fine point of distinction--hay is animal fodder, straw is what's
left over after everything with significant nutritional value has been
removed from the grain plant.



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