Anglicisms

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Robin Hamilton
<robin.hamilton3 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> I reckon you

I reckon ([that] S)

is most definitely a living part of my own grammar, familiar to me
from earliest childhood in Texas.

However, I had in mind the speech of a friend who is a native of
Ipswich and who uses

"I reckon NP"

in stead of

"I fancy NP"

or

"I like NP"


> "Pa??erson, sir, with two t's."

How quaint! In New Jersey, USA, the name of the city of Pa?erson is
spelled with only a single t, to wit, _Paterson_. ;-)

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-Wilson
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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.
-Mark Twain

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