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Lynne Murphy
m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK
Wed Nov 29 19:00:27 UTC 2006
--On 28 November 2006 14:08 -0500 Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
wrote:
> I know nothing! (Hogan's Heroes)
Surely, this is spelt wrong. It's
"I know nothink!"
Without the final devoicing, it's just a sentence, not a catchphrase...
Lynne
Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Linguistics and English Language
Arts B135
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN
phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
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