Obama and indefinite articles

[Tom Zurinskas]

Not only that but look, the aftermath  http://tinyurl.com/56qhzr
It's horrible, horrible.
 
(I heard the announcer lady say "wool" instead of "will".  There's a lot of that going on lately)
 
 
Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+ > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:02:14 -0500> From: hwgray at GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Obama and indefinite articles> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>> Poster: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>> Subject: Re: Obama and indefinite articles> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Whoa! The country has made a horrible, horrible, horrible mistake! Yet> another chief executive with an incomplete command of the English> language! When are we going to learn?> > -Wilson> > 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.> -----> -Mark Twain> > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Bradley A. Esparza <baesparza at gmail.com> wrote:> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> > Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>> > Poster: "Bradley A. Esparza" <baesparza at GMAIL.COM>> > Subject: Obama and indefinite articles> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > Watching President-elect Obama speak I just heard him say> > "....*a*international....", not 'an'. <ay>> > Bradley A. Esparza> >> > "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy> > Parker, when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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