[Ads-l] Heard: _don't only_

[Wilson Gray]

Archie Bell of Houston, Texas:

"We _don't only_ sing, but we dance as good as we want to."

Korean instructor in English:

"There are about thirty British dialects, so we should understand that
British speakers _don't only_ use received pronounciation [sic]."

Speaking only for myself, naturally, _don't only_ is bizarre.
I prefer

_don't just sing_ and _don't use only_.

"Different strokes," I reckon.

-- 
-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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