[Ads-l] More Facebookery

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 26 15:02:23 UTC 2018


Usage pretty familiar to me from undergraduates forty years ago.

JL

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:30 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "She could have been any of our’s child."
>
> [Full disclosure: the writer is my second cousin, once removed.]
>
> --
> -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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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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