please put places lived history in signature

[Jonathan Lighter]

There's that song by Sir Walter Scott,

  "Deep in the Heart of Midlothian."

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Midlothian is in Scotland?! I thought that it was in Texas! ;-)

-Wilson

On 10/23/06, Paul A Johnston, Jr.
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> Subject: Re: please put places lived history in signature
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> SE NY-6
> NE IL-8
> NC NJ-4
> SE MI-4
> NC NJ-2
> MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND-13
> SINGAPORE-2
> NC NJ-1
> SC NY-1
> SW MI-17
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> Paul Johnston (an academic)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Hause
> Date: Sunday, October 22, 2006 11:19 pm
> Subject: Re: please put places lived history in signature
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> > Poster: Dave Hause
> > Subject: Re: please put places lived history in signature
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> > As many of us are academics (I'm not), the question comes to me, do
> > ouridiolects come from the greater communities in which we live or
> > the specific
> > subculture (Army, for me) in which we spend the majority of our time?
> > Private schools would seem likely to draw from a wider group than
> > stateschools. My own influences would seem likely to be something
> > reflectingArmy demographics (medical subculture.)
> > Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> > Waynesville, MO
> > TX 2, IL 13, WI 3, MI 1, [MO-CA-GA] 1, RVN 1.5, IL 8, MO 4, WA 4,
> > MO 2, MD
> > 1, TX 0.5, Ger 2.5, TX 2, MD 6, MO 8
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tom Zurinskas"
> >
> > I'd like us all to put a line history of places lived like mine
> > below in my
> > signature. I find many responses I get are from non-American
> > natives, even
> > though this is "American" Dialect Society.
> >
> > Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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