Boys Town or Boy's Town or Boys' Town (Mexican brothels near Texas border)

[Charles Doyle]

Well, Larry, I'm relieved to know that the way I talk is "alive"--and even "well"!

--Charlie


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>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:48:36 -0400
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>

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>At 3:09 PM -0400 8/28/07, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

>>An interesting phrase:  "about what all transpired there."  I used this construction often as a kid but haven't heard it much lately: "What all did you do there?"  "Where all did you go?" etc.  Is it still common, you googlers?

>
>. . . One of our grad students did a paper for his second-year portfolio on the wh- all construction; it is indeed alive and well. . . .

LH

>>>
>>>Having grown up in Texas, by my late teenhood in the early 1960s I was certainly familiar with the less wholesome sense of the term "Boys' Town." To this day, I do a small double-take whenever I hear a reference to Fr. Flanagan's worthy insitution (although, knowing the things we now know, we may have questions about what all transpired THERE!).
>>>
>>>--Charlie

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