"Ain't _I'm_ pretty?"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen the ad a number of times but I haven't noticed "I'm."
>
> My guess is that Terry (Shreveport, La.) just nasalizes "I" a little more
> than most of us.

Nobody ever explained it to me that way, before.

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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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