intransitive "making"

M. Lynne Murphy M_Lynne_Murphy at BAYLOR.EDU
Tue Nov 30 03:31:32 UTC 1999


I just asked at another dinner about "the coffee is making" and a Houstonian
told me that he's used "make" this way for years.  He agreed with me that
he'd only use this for coffee in a coffee maker.  If it were in a
percolator, he'd say "it's percolating" or some such.

Lynne



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