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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><span class="gI"><span class="go"></span></span><span></span></p>







<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2011.04.28 (01) [EN]</span><span class="gI"></span></p>

<br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); margin-left: 40px;" class="im">From: <span>Sandy Fleming <span><<a href="http://uk.mc286.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fleemin@live.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fleemin@live.co.uk</a>></span></span><span></span>
</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); margin-left: 40px;" class="im">Subject: <span>LL-L "Grammar" 2011.04.27 (01) [DE-EN-NDS]</span>
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</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); margin-left: 40px;">This ...(present tense speaking about the past) ....is quite common
 in Scots spoken narrative, though rarely seen in writing. It seems to 
me that in Scots people tend to slip into this manner of speech once the
 narrative "really gets going". </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Sandy Fleming</span><br></div><div><br>Actually, now you mention it, it occurs in reported speech in England (and probably USA) in non-standard speech:</div>


<div>"So I sez to her....an' she sez to me..."</div>
<div>Or in more modern idiom:</div>
<div>"So I go...and then he goes..."</div>
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<div>Paul</div>
<div>Derby</div>
<div>England</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">


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