Ary

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Ever a" > "e'er a" > ary.

IIRC.

JL

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net> wrote:

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> The distribution of "ary" doesn't quite match that of "any", at least
> judging by Andy Griffith's "Football" sketch, when he says, "Before I could
> get ary mouthful of that Big Orange drink...". Here it seems to mean
> something like "even a".
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> Neal
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> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Donald McCaig <mccaig at MGWNET.COM> wrote:
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> > Dear Linguists,
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> > I'm a historical novelist and keeping speech rhythms and dialect
> > appropriate to the time helps the reader participate.
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> > I'd like to know early uses of the southern "ary" for "any" and the
> > word's relationship to "Nary".
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> > Donald McCaig
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