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(...) No use crying over spelt milk... ;) Jeff (follow-ups to o-t.pun) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wait! Where does this word come from? I once saw an episode of "Friends" where the character "Joey" uses this word as though it were correct. Were they actually making fun of an east coast regional dialect? What makes this especially (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, I think that's "again touring", not "still touring". They had split for a long time. Long enough for various members to join/form various other bands, with varying degrees of success. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now that I think of it, there's another western PA-ism (and maybe elsewhere) in which the speaker drops the "to be" infinitive. For example, one might say "the laundry needs washed" rather than "the laundry needs to be washed" or "the laundry (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) supposably libary I know this is not improper but it always jars me when my NLS, who hails from Long Island, talks about having to stand "on line" at the post office or bank. Is this peculiar to New Yorkers or do people say it up and down the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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