"drug" = "dragged"

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Thu May 24 00:36:01 UTC 2007


I don't see this one too often in print. Perhaps editors, of which
I'm not too sure the site I got this from has one, change it to
"dragged" wherever it's written. I don't normally hear it up in the
frozen north, though I'm aware of it, and of its being current in
"nonstandard" English for a long time.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/bermuda-triangle1.htm

"The most bizarre theory is that a giant octopus entwined the ship
with it tentacles and drug it to the bottom of the ocean."

James Harbeck.

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