Sentence-initial "As well"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 22 17:26:30 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> sentence-initial "Plus".

And plus besides, an extended, fuller, sentence-initial form, _and
plus besides_, has been used colloquially by a subset of BE-speakers
for at least the past sixty years.

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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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