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From: "NetBoie" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] OT my old story
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:16:04 -0400
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Hmm...I wonder if this is the same family as the car parts people - Lappan. They pronounce it as in, "Lappin' up the old sauce", with the accent on the first sylable.

Dave Constantine in Boston


----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Lepore


Thanks for laugh, Doreen -

Actually, your story reminds me that I always thought
Lapan would be pronounced La-Pahn, since it came from
Lapalme and is sometimes spelled Lapanne.

The few I have met in Masschusetts pronounce it La Pan [rhymes with
Man]

Is this how everyone else pronounces it?

Lisa

----- Original Message -----
From: "D. O'" <>

> Seeing another listers request for surname LAPAN reminded me of this
and I
> just had to share.
>
>
> 1945 - My mother showed me a beautiful white fur coat that she had
taken out
> of cold storage where it had been for almost 20 years. The style
was
> slender and very fitted and she told me stories about where she had
worn it
> and how my dad loved to see her wear it. I asked her "what kind of
fur is
> it?" She replied, "why its lapin". "Lapin! Mom, that's French for
> rabbit!" Recovering her dignity my mother answered "well, yes but
its
> French rabbit!"
>
>
>
> Doreen
> I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.

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