"wore black, or eat green" in 1657 Barbados
Baker, John
JMB at STRADLEY.COM
Fri Sep 12 21:06:46 UTC 2008
Yes, I think that's right. It isn't the use of "eat" that
catches me up, it's the "green."
John Baker
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Subject: Re: "wore black, or eat green" in 1657 Barbados
Re: "wore black, or eat green"
Might not this _eat_ have been pronounced "et" or be a misspelling of
"et," given that AmE is pretty much the only dialect of E in which "eat,
_et_" is non-standard?
It would then match "wore" in tense.
-Wilson
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