--- Jim Beaver <
jumblejim@prodigy.net> wrote:
> I don't want to appear overly fanatical about
the
> elixir of the gods, but
> there's no "." after Dr in Dr Pepper. For some
of
> us with little else of
> importance in our lives, such details are
crucial.
> And some of us take our
> DP very seriously.
Jim--You are, of course, correct. But the period wasn't
dropped until sometime in the 1950s. I guess this is just
another piece of evidence that I was born decades later than
I should have been--I'm just a
'40s kind of guy.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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