Vals Kilmer (like "attorneys general"?)
Charles Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Tue Mar 28 15:04:29 UTC 2006
And why, during the last few cycles of Olympic games, has
the American team become "Team America"?
--Charlie
>And Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
>>>>
>
> The subtitle of the 1978 miniseries _Holocaust_ was "The
Story of the
>Family Weiss"
>[http://library.maricopa.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?
profile=cgc2&index=BIB&term=1
>94741#focus]. I don't know whether this construction was
simply an
>imitation of Yiddish and German syntax, or whether it was
once also common
>in English.
>
><<<
>
>"The Swiss Family Robinson"
>"The Brothers Karamazov"
>
>
>m a m
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