On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:08:18 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:

Anybody ever bothered to correct the newsies? This would be interesting to
most of them.

I used to correct people who say "rice paddy" when they meant "paddy
field", but after thirty years I quit.

For the record, "paddy" is the young rice plant, which grows submerged
in water, in a paddy field.

When the water is drained, the same area becomes a rice field.

Now, I'll bet you all go home and talk about rice paddies! You can't
educate people if they don't give a damn, and who gives a damn about
paddy fields and tar macadam in this world of sorrow and sin?