"Ancestors" including son;

[James Smith]

Maybe both highly intelligent and well educated.  Come
on - we all have peculiarities, eccentricities,
shibboleths; traits, mannerisms or usages that don't
adhere to "prescriptive" norms.  Do all intelligent
and educated people speak in the same dialect?


--- Dave Hause <dwhause at JOBE.NET> wrote:
> Hmmm.  Possibly from people with high academic
> credentials, but one might
> argue whether that is the same as "highly educated."
> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jesse Sheidlower" <jester at PANIX.COM>
>
> We have a small pile of evidence for _ancestor_
> 'descendant'. I first
> started noticing this in the mid-1990s, and have
> recorded examples even from
> highly educated people.

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jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.




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