"Gwine"

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:44 PM +0100 2/28/05, Paul Frank wrote:
>  > And don't forget "roil" --> "rile," which is in fact the more common
>>  pronunciation for most of us today (except for the NY Times, which
>>  insists on spelling it "roil").
>>  >Paul Johnston
>>  >Western Michigan University
>
>It does?
>
>Mr. Brus's recent drawings, made with considerable skill and including
>handwritten poetic texts, hark back to a time early in the 20th century
>when blasphemy and images of sexual decadence could still rile up the
>bourgeoisie.
>NYT, February 11, 2005
>
>I think I've seen both roil and rile in the Times.
>
For the previous two years, using Full Text option on Nexis:

roil  134
rile    67

Confirming Paul F's point--a 2:1 ratio doesn't seem like a stylistic
"insist"ence.

larry