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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Sheila G. Miller / The Bulletin
March 18, 2008
Dirt cheap.
It’s a term any native English speaker knows: it means you’re getting a good deal. But to a group of fifth-grade students at Jewell Elementary who speak English as their second language, the phrase was bewildering.
If an item was dirt cheap, students surmised,....
