"plenty enough" ?

[Wilson Gray]

You're right, Larry. Curses! Horned again!

-Wilson

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 2:07 AM -0400 7/16/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>My word, y'all! That isn't strange to me, at all! My mother uses it.
>>It even occurs in the '70's Country-rock hit, "Double Shot":
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>>"One night with her is _plenty enough_
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> "One night a week is plenty enough"
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> LH
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>>"It's a good thing for me
>>"They don't bottle that stuff"
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>>-Wilson
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>>On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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>>>  >From the column, "Corporate  Focus" by Robert Weissman, editor
>>>  /Multinational Monitor /:/
>>>  .."The group did not suggest any illegal activities  by the companies --
>>>  there are plenty enough legal tax avoidance strategies."
>>>  Odd to find this awkward redundancy in the work of an editor.
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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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