Grammar Girl's "needs done" survey

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 7 18:30:19 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But I bet I'm not the only one who heard "need rebuilt."

Exactly! You let them go to Harvard and they're *still* unable to
enunciate properly!

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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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