I was teaching adult education classes, and some of my students were older than me. We mostly studied math and English, but I threw in a little geography or science from time to time. One evening I was discussing agriculture and mentioned irrigation of crops.

One of the ladies, who was studying for a GED so she could go to nursing school, smiled and said, "I know another meaning for the word 'irrigation.'"
Howard

> Funny how regular context can change a word for you. After two months of working in a labor and delivery ward, 'precip' means something totally different to me. In my world, when a woman comes off the elevator looking more or less like death, and there's a frantic blur of nurses trying to get a room pulled together and a doctor woken up, and then a baby is born within about thirty minutes (often before the woman's officially registered at the hospital), it gets referred to as a 'precip.'
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> And while I figured Howard wasn't using the word that way, it didn't occur to me that it could stand for anything other than "precipitous."
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> Lire"I wonder what they'd call Michael's daddy story with the twins"lyn