"Q: "show me out [something]" = show to me?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Feb 10 00:33:53 UTC 2008


At 2/9/2008 04:40 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Ah.  Doeg's later question casts a new light on the issue, and does indeed
>support the reading "show me where..." as a reasonable alternative.

With your sanction, Mark, I'm going to send it on to the OED, where
the real experts are.

Joel

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