FW: Doing the Laundry

[Barnhart]

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Tuesday, July 25,
2006 at 10:10 AM -0500 wrote:
> Anything in DARE?

For _purt near_ there's enough to make it worthwhile consulting on this at
_pretty_ (A2b) as well as _pretty near it_ (as a separate entry).  Don't
overlook other sense of "pretty" with v+r, as in "Pertee powerful smart
feller!"

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

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