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Originally Posted by boxcorner
So, depending in which era and state someone was living, if they shouted, "There's a red under the bed", upon opening their front door they might be faced with either a lynch-mob, the FBI, or a CSI forensics team - having misheard "there's red" - arriving to determine its nature. The subtleties of the English language never cease to astound me.
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LOL! Just to make it more confusing, "red" can also describe a light skinned black person (when short for "redbone") or a communist.