"Judge" show

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Feb 21 21:28:28 UTC 2007


On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>> From an e-mail submitted into evidence on a "Judge" show:
>
> "I can pay you back only a little at _the_ time."
>
> Google: 10,300 raw hits. Possibly half or fewer are relevant, since
> Google searches for "[a] little [at the] time."

nice.  recall the discussion we had here on "definitization" here
last september, posted on Language Log a little bit later:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003550.html

arnold

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