"Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/27/2011 08:29 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>My approach to this is heavily influenced by years of explaining English to
>German speakers. In German, rules are rules. For example, if memory serves,
>there are only three German words that violate pronunciation rules, and only
>one of them is common, the word for snow.

John Cleese would make a skit out of this.

Joel

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