Loose talk

[Wilson Gray]

On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

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> 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"

You are correct, sir. "Borry" is most definitely the correct - as
opposed to the "proper" - form.

-Wilson

> --never "borrow," which would have been
> incongruously urban/educated.
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> --On Thursday, July 14, 2005 5:07 PM -0400 sagehen
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>> "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
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>> 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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