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Old 06-26-2013, 03:56 AM
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Originally Posted by buggyone View Post
I had a college roomie from the Laurel Highlands area of Pa. I asked him which can of soda was mine. He pointed to one and said, "That's urine." He meant "that's yours".
I believe in that context it would be spelled "your'n".... When I was in college, back in the days when college was first being invented, I had a friend whose mother was a public school teacher who had a student named "Urine." Exactly this spelling. The teacher found it awkward and uncomfortable to address the student by her name like this, instead altering the pronunciation to "You-Rine" or "You-Reen," but the girl always corrected the teacher back to "Urine"....

Last edited by Quixote; 06-26-2013 at 03:57 AM. Reason: Correcting my misspelling....