Taking Bush Serious(ly)

[Robert Fitzke]

Another Bush-ism I've read about is his use of the phrase "not over my dead
body" in reference to a tax increase. I expected some comments about this
use but have seen none. Wouldn't the appropriate phrase be "over my dead
body"?

Bob (a lurker)

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Boatti <Ittaob at AOL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: Taking Bush Serious(ly)


> On Friday on the radio news, a recording of Pres. Bush was played, in
which
> he said the following about the "shadow government": "This is serious
> business, and we are taking it serious . . .ly." By his inflection, it
> sounded as if he meant to end the sentence at "serious," then suddenly
> remembered his rules of grammar and quickly added the adverbial suffix.
>