VS in dialog

[Mark Mandel]

On Jan 6, 2008 12:56 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

>
> >c) are there geographical differences related to this practice?
>
> I don't know. Usually I don't know or care where a fiction author is
> located ... or is from.
>

I think the questioner was asking there about use in speech.

m a m

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