Loose talk

[Peter A. McGraw]

I haven't heard it in a long time, but it's familiar enough.  My memory
conjures it up as coming from the mouths of the rural Oregon kids I went to
school with from 5th through 8th grade. And the only form this memory
conjures up is "borry" --never "borrow," which would have been
incongruously urban/educated.

PMc

--On Thursday, July 14, 2005 5:07 PM -0400 sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
wrote:

> "Borrow" for "lend" is very common here in ND.  My students say it all
> the  time; recently, a student form my linguistics course asked a fellow
> teacher, "Can you borrow (lend) me a pencil?"  She was immediately
> startled because she hadn't even realized she used that expression
> though we'd talked about it in class.
>
> Patti Kurtz
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> I haven't heard this for a good many years, but it was fairly common in
> Nebraska when I was a kid (30s, 40s).
> A. Murie



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