Prom time . . . .

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Fri May 5 05:10:16 UTC 2006


Curiouser and curiouser...

On May 2, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:

> Larry, that sentence-initial, sans-negative "anymore" sounds
> REALLY odd to me!

Arnold rejoined:

> he only does it to annoy, and because he knows it teases.

Yah, but no 'and'.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI, "Pig and Pepper",
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/wonder/ch6.html

Wow, wow, wow!

m a m, master of trivia (yeah, sure)

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