"or eiher"?

[Wilson Gray]

Well, Larry, at least you've never had to suffer the ignominy of getting Horned!

-Wilson

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 11:39 AM -0400 4/21/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>  >It's pretty much "standard" in both Southern English and Black
>  >English, the latter being, of course, a subset of Southern English.
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>  >-Wilson
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>  Oops, you beat me to the punch.  Always annoying, to be beaten to the
>  punch (but I can live with it as long as you leave me some).
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>  LH
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>  >On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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>  >>   Jimmy Carter, speaking  on Morning Edition about the likelihood of success
>  >>   of certain peace proposals betw/ Palestinians & Israel,  "if [condition A].
>  >>   or either [condition  B] ".  This was in fluent, unhesitating speech & made
>  >>   me wonder if it's a dialectal usage.  It feels familiar, but not in my
>  >>   idiolect.
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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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