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Thread #131842   Message #2977981
Posted By: Amos
01-Sep-10 - 07:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Phrases that don't travel
Subject: RE: BS: Phrases that don't travel
Swap out has earlier roots before memory swaps, as in swapping out a burned out carb for a Hollis dual-barrel on a hot-rod in the 50's.

And cursive was well-known and widely used in common parlance in my part of New England in the same period.

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