A dialect split

[Wilson Gray]

Beverly wrote:

"Actually, Trudgill only cites one song from Dylan, and it's neither of the
two I cited above."

I was caught off-guard by "... neither of the
_two_ I cited ..."

As I read along, I was fully expecting "... neither of the
_ones that_ I cited ..."

Now that my internal grammar has had a chance to wrestle with it, it
recognizes Beverly's locution as perfectly grammatical. But, for a
moment, there, it freaked.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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