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Posted: 04 March 2013 03:51 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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Aldi’s wordplay makes me wonder if the similarity of “chimney cricket” (esp. with a dialectical trisyllabic [or disesquisyllabic] pronunciation of “chimney") and “jiminy cricket” had something to do with the origin of “cricket” as a name for that bit of roofing hardware.

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