Prescriptive Linguists

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Fri Feb 1 03:31:31 UTC 2008


>"Which car did you put in the Mary garage?"

This is almost attested. At least in Cape Breton, the sentence would
be "Which car did you put in the Jesus garage?" So close...

(The answer would be "I put my Jesus car in the Jesus garage, Jesus
Joseph and Mary!")

James Harbeck.

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