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Originally posted by spookyfish
Speaking of death and the sloughing off of the mortal coil, I was looking at a link that str8 posted yesterday about different areas of the country using different words to describe the same thing. One of the items covered was the use of the words coffin versus casket. The site intimated that there was actually a difference between the two. Is this true? If so, what's the difference?
I always thought the two were interchangeable.
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Having no idea about the coffin/casket distiction, and assuming someone else will know, I give a semi-related anecdote instead.
One of my sisters and I played a game of "how many ways can you say something is dead" one time on a 1000 mile road trip from New Mexico to Texas. Every time we passed road kill one of us had to find a unique way of describing the passing. "That opossum kicked the bucket." "That coyote is knocking at St. Peter's gate." "That I'm not sure what it was is swimming with the fishes." etc.
I think we came up with somewhere around 120 ways of saying something has died.
