Belated reply re: "the" wife

[Aaron Drews]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

}Yeah but the guy who said he couldn;t say it revealed his Britishness. No
}US respondent has yet denied it.

If that's me, I'm not quite sure how to take it.  As I said in an earlier
message, I'm from L.A...... I'm just trying to observe what is said in
Britain, since that was kinda, sorta part of an earlier query.

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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