"drug" = "dragged"

[Charles Doyle]

We Southerners prefer our verbs like our coffee, our liquor, and our women: strong.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:10:57 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: "drug" = "dragged"
>
>"Drug" for "dragged" is normal (i.e., used by all natives all the time - except in print) here in E. Tenn.
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>  JL
>
>James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA> wrote:
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>I don't see this one too often in print. Perhaps editors, of which I'm not too sure the site I got this from has one, change it to "dragged" wherever it's written. I don't normally hear it up in the frozen north, though I'm aware of it, and of its being current in "nonstandard" English for a long time.
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>http://science.howstuffworks.com/bermuda-triangle1.htm
>
>"The most bizarre theory is that a giant octopus entwined the ship with it tentacles and drug it to the bottom of the ocean."
>
>James Harbeck.

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