I thought about adding the g, but google usually adds close matches like that. How else do you usually get thousands of hits on nearly anything you put in.
Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
In the book it was spelled in a vernacular with a dropped g. I just googled the phrase spelling it racking threes and got three results. I didn't open the resulting pages, but they look like they could be sports related._ _ _ "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world" Virginia Woolf The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:27 AMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Odd phrase in book-- was Re: Proofreading SoftwareBasketball could be it. They were talking about when they were much younger. Or Roger could be right, tha writer could have made it up.I really intended to change the subject when I sent the first message, really I did.Misha Valerie Maples wrote:I have only heard it in terms of basketball and three point shots. Not sure how that fits into police stories, though, unless it is in their off time...Valerie On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Mike wrote:Does anyone know what "rackin' threes" means? It is probably police jargon if that helps any. The book I am proofing has it. Part way through the book, many words that begin with the letter r have the space before them and the r removed. So I thought it was probably one of these errors, but wasn't sure. To see if it was a real phrase (and what it might mean), I put it into google with quotes around it. The single item returned (and I don't know if I've ever gotten only a single item returned from google before) was the line from the book on books.google.comSo, I know the phrase is in the book as I thought, but I still haven't a clue what it means.Misha To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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