The earth v. Earth (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Beverly Flanigan]

I like Michael's "toot sweet" too.  So he likes to play with the French,
Wilson!

At 05:08 PM 8/8/2007, you wrote:
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>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.
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>Mercy buckets
>
>Michael
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>--- Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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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, [@].
> >
> > -Wilson
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> > On 8/8/07, Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com>
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> > > Look them up in DARE for beaucoups of citations.
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > --- Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:
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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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