cannot: OED pronunciation again

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>> ... As far as the Johnny Mac sort of case
>
> Et _tu_, Laurentie?! Nope, it can't be happening. Clearly, "[a]s far as
> the Johnny Mac sort of case...." must be a lapsus for "[a]s for the
> Johnny Mac sort of case...."

see:

Rickford, John R.; Thomas A. Wasow; Norma Mendoza-Denton; & Juli
Espinoza. 1995. Syntactic variation and change in progress: Loss of the
verbal coda in topic-restricting _as far as_ constructions. Lg
71.1.102-31.

arnold, *not* a co-author