(neither) nor

[Scot LaFaive]

I believe I have. It at least doesn't sound too foreign to me.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: (neither) nor
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:25:40 -0400
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>Poster:       Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
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>Has anyone ever heard this kind of phrase sans "neither":
>"Kent Smith nor anyone from that office was present . . . ."
>The meaning was clearly "neither KS nor anyone else ...."
>
>Beverly Flanigan
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