After that last LJ entry (I don’t pick the Photo Friday themes!), I figured I owed you something not gross.
Here’s the newest addition to Lynne’s family.
A West Highland terrier, she weighs three pounds at eight weeks old. Her name is Minute, because both Lynne’s son and I said the same thing when we saw her: She’s no bigger than a minute!
We also found out that some people (origins: Minnesota, Maine, California) have never heard that phrase: not as big as a minute. Is this a Southern thing?
good lord, he’s cute!!
name? perfect. 🙂
correction:
*she’s* cute as can be!
Coming from Iowa, I’ve heard the phase ‘not as big as a minute’ before, but don’t know that I hear it often or that I’ve ever said it myself.
Maybe I know it from reading some book.
I think it is a southern phrase. My mom was from Virginia and I’ve heard her say it.
He is cute.
Cute puppy!
I don’t think I’ve heard “no bigger than a minute” used often down here. Seeing/hearing a measure of time used to measure size hurts my technical writing sensibilities, though.
I’m Wisconsin born and bred and I grew up with that phrase…of course we (my family) are country folk, so maybe it’s a city-suburb vs rural thing?