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[quote=Anonymous]Don't be mean to ditchwater, please. Especially since I'll bet you're been pronouncing Thoreau wrong all these years (turns out it's pronounce "Thorough")

I pegged ditchwater poster to the south, like Georgia, although red clays are found elsewhere (and apparently under most of the Pacific) but she could be from many other parts of the world. And it could be that there's a hyper-local usage.

The summer after high school I was a waitress in my grandparents' small rural town, spent the summer at their house. My boss was a very dumb person. He and the cook had a long argument one slow afternoon because he insisted the machine that played records if you put in a quarter was a jute box. Based on Google, it's a more common mistake to say jute box than to say ditchwater blond. I found exactly one Google reference where someone asked if it was ditchwater or dishwater, and they were actually talking about the color of their guitar. Therefore PP Ditchwater's mistake (in terms of common usage) is unique enough to be praiseworthy IMO, and good for PP for standing up for herself.

My best friend in college was the daughter of scientists. When we did fruit fly experiments in biology we had to go in every 6 hours to knock out our flies with ether to make sure any females were virgins. She honestly thought this was not to control preproductive data but because non virgin fruit flies were considered immoral sluts and it offended her feminist sensibilities. [/quote]

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