[Ads-l] "said no X ever"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 27 01:00:17 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't believe I've ever heard it without the emphatic "ever."


I have the same feeling, FWIW. Maybe I've simply never noticed it without
the "ever."

Youneverknow.


-- 
-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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