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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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DEGREE

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00I would like to know if DEGREE here refers to BREED:02br
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00'What degree of a dog is that?'02br
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00Thanks, Jo. 0-
  

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0Hello Jo02br
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00I would take it to mean "what kind of dog is that?"02br
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00MrP0-
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0Is that British? 02br
01i00What degree of dog is that? 02i00would be very odd in the U.S.0-
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0I've never heard it over here, GG! Sounds strange to me too. The only reference I can find is to Steinbeck's 01i00Travels With Charley02i00:02br
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00"A dog, particularly an exotic like Charley, is a bond between strangers. Many conversations en route began with 'What degree of a dog is that?'"02br
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00I'd vaguely assumed it wa
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0 I wonder if 01b00degree 02b00is a corruption of "01b00pedigree02b00?" 0-
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0 Good thought MH. Could very well be. But I've never heard it outside this forum, so it's either highly regionalized or simply no longer spoken. 0-

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