The earth v. Earth (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Montgomery Michael]

In several places in the South I've lived we've put
the word (and variants) into the plural.  I rather
doubt that we ever used a numeral with it, though.

Mercy buckets

Michael


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> "Beaucoups of citations." Hmm. I'm more accustomed
> to "beaucoup
> citations" or "citations a beaucoup." In the latter,
> "a" is the usual,
> unstressed, English vowel, [@].
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> > Look them up in DARE for beaucoups of citations.
> >
> > Michael
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> > >
> > > "The hippoes"?
> > > "The mulligrubs"?
> > > I can imagine the former having something to do
> with
> > > being, simultaneously, heightiness challenged
> and
> > > broadily enhanced.
> > > I'm stumped by mulligrubs, though. The mind
> boggles!
> > > (the other) doug
> > >
> > >
> > > In the South Midland names of diseases and
> illnesses
> > > are often preceded by the definite article.
> "The
> > > cancer" is certainly known, but I think "the
> sugar"
> > > =
> > > "diabetes" would be far more common.  My
> favorites
> > > are
> > > "the hippoes" and "the mulligrubs."  I've also
> heard
> > > "the typhoid," etc.  "The measles" is
> ubiquitous,
> > > but
> > > I suspect this may have a much broader regional
> > > distribution.  We eagerly await DARE V for a
> > > splendiferous display of definite article usage.
> > >
> > > "The" with diseases is definitely a Scotch-Irish
> > > inheritance.  Check out _the_ def. art. sense 4
> in
> > > the
> > > Scottish National Dictionary.  This can be found
> > > on-line at the wonderful Dictionary of the Scots
> > > Language website, which incorporates both the
> SND
> > > and
> > > the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.
> This
> > > philological resource that approaches the
> magnitude
> > > of
> > > the OED is available free at www.dsl.ac.uk.  I
> don't
> > > think that it has gotten enough publicity on
> this
> > > side
> > > of the water, though, so I'm blowing the bugle
> to
> > > consult it, if ADSers will pardon me.
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > >I've heard folks in the rural South referring
> to
> > > > having "the cancer"
> > > > >instead of what seems to me to be standard
> usage
> > > > "cancer".
> > > >
> > > > In the urban North it may not be "the cancer"
> but
> > > > it's often "the big C".
> > > >
> > > > LH
> > >
> > >
> >
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