LL-L "Expressions" 2002.12.26 (03) [E]

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From: rossmay <rossmay at bellsouth.net>
Subject: LL-L "Expressions" 2002.12.26 (01) [E/S]

I have with interest followed Sandy and George in their comments.  Scots is
a very humorous and dry dialect, and I love it.  I don't know at which stage
my ancestors abandoned it for the Southern dialect of the United States, but
they have been here since the very early 1700's, from Ulster, and originally
from Skye and Aberdeen.  George, I wonder if you are confusing verse, which
has no rules, with writing.  I don't think you need to parse it to make it
correct.

      And besides, as a scholar, I don't never use no damned double
negatives!     BG

                  Harlan Ross May
                   Gulfport, Mississippi, USA

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