[Ads-l] Facebookery: _to dissertate_

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 16, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Well, already normal in Knoxville in the mid-to-late '70s.
> 
> Where they claim still to be talkin' Elizabethan.
> 
> 
Even though they have no queens to coronate?


> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:23 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Joe Salmons <jsalmons at wisc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Utterly normal at Wisconsin!
>>> 
>> 
>> That’s unsurprising, Joe. The non-native-speaker was describing the
>> situation in a country in which English is *not* the native language. <har!
>> har!>
>> --
>> -Wilson
>> -----
>> 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
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org