At last. A home for drinkers!

[Tom Zurinskas]

Exactly.  Where the word "sought" is mispronounced "sot", so why not spell it that way.  Curse of the "awe" droppers.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:01:09 -0500
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: At last. A home for drinkers!
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Laurence Horn
> Subject: Re: At last. A home for drinkers!
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> At 9:55 AM -0500 12/13/07, Dennis Preston wrote:
>>Some of y'all boys lookin fer a place to lay your weary heads after a
>>night on the town may want to check out some Oklahoma possibilities.
>>One realtor writes about a place as follers:
>>
>>Wonderful, Unique house located in a very sot after neighborhood.
>>
>>dInIs
>
> ...and a pretty strong clue as to where the realtor stands on the
> "caught"/"cot" merger.
>
> LH
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>>>You may have a point there, Matthew, WRT Br v. Am variation. But isn't
>>>that what dialectology is about? Had _has to do_ been spoken by an
>>>American and _is to do_ been spoken by an Englishman, the difference
>>>may wee not have caught my attention. But that wasn't the case. Both
>>>speakers were American. Even merely within the US, there are many
>>>variations, up to the point of ungrammaticality. Cf., e.g.:
>>>
>>>"You sank my boat!"
>>>
>>>A. "No I never!"
>>>
>>>B. "No I didn't!
>>>
>>>For me, A is almost laughingly ungrammatical in this context, though
>>>I've been hearing people speak that way for about 65 years. I've
>>>simply never been able to get ready for the A version. I just can't
>>>feature it.
>>>
>>>-Wilson
>>>
>>>On 12/11/07, Gordon, Matthew J.  wrote:
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>>>> I'm not sure why Wilson's pointing this out exactly. Isn't the variation =
>>>> between "is to do" and "has to do" British vs. American?
>>>>
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Wilson Gray
>>>> Sent: Tue 12/11/2007 6:27 PM
>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>>> =20
>>>> "The problem _is to do_ with the power-saving systems ..."
>>>>
>>>> -Wilson
>>>> --
>>>> All say, "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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>>University Distinguished Professor
>>Department of English
>>Morrill Hall 15-C
>>Michigan State University
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