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WHEN CALLED A NAME BY SOMEONE, A WELL KNOW REPLY IN MY
NEIGHBORHOOD WAS: "STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES,
BUT NAMS WILL NEVER HURT ME."

Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAID THIS IN HER CHILDHOOD.

Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; TOLD IN ; SCRANTON

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

Date learned: 03-01-1972

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