The earth v. Earth (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

"Beaucoups of citations." Hmm. I'm more accustomed to "beaucoup
citations" or "citations a beaucoup." In the latter, "a" is the usual,
unstressed, English vowel, [@].

-Wilson

On 8/8/07, Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Look them up in DARE for beaucoups of citations.
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> Michael
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> --- Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:
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> > "The hippoes"?
> > "The mulligrubs"?
> > I can imagine the former having something to do with
> > being, simultaneously, heightiness challenged and
> > broadily enhanced.
> > I'm stumped by mulligrubs, though. The mind boggles!
> > (the other) doug
> >
> >
> > In the South Midland names of diseases and illnesses
> > are often preceded by the definite article.  "The
> > cancer" is certainly known, but I think "the sugar"
> > =
> > "diabetes" would be far more common.  My favorites
> > are
> > "the hippoes" and "the mulligrubs."  I've also heard
> > "the typhoid," etc.  "The measles" is ubiquitous,
> > but
> > I suspect this may have a much broader regional
> > distribution.  We eagerly await DARE V for a
> > splendiferous display of definite article usage.
> >
> > "The" with diseases is definitely a Scotch-Irish
> > inheritance.  Check out _the_ def. art. sense 4 in
> > the
> > Scottish National Dictionary.  This can be found
> > on-line at the wonderful Dictionary of the Scots
> > Language website, which incorporates both the SND
> > and
> > the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.  This
> > philological resource that approaches the magnitude
> > of
> > the OED is available free at www.dsl.ac.uk.  I don't
> > think that it has gotten enough publicity on this
> > side
> > of the water, though, so I'm blowing the bugle to
> > consult it, if ADSers will pardon me.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > > >
> > > >I've heard folks in the rural South referring to
> > > having "the cancer"
> > > >instead of what seems to me to be standard usage
> > > "cancer".
> > >
> > > In the urban North it may not be "the cancer" but
> > > it's often "the big C".
> > >
> > > LH
> >
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