Fwd: "all of the sudden"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

intended for the whole list, not just Ron:

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> From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Date: September 26, 2008 1:19:17 PM PDT
> To: ronbutters at aol.com
> Subject: Re: "all of the sudden"
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2008, at 12:55 PM, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Have we discussed "all of the sudden" vs. "all of a sudden" here
>> before? I thought that "all of the sudden" was a Southernism, but
>> Charles Krauthammer used "all of the sudden" in a recent column
>> (published in the Raleigh News and Observer).
>
> my Language Log discussion of this case and some others --
>
>  AZ, 9/5/06: Definitization: a >> the:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003550.html
>
> set off an ADS-L thread the next two days (16 postings in all).
> search the archives for keyword "sudden" in september 2006.
>
> i saw no evidence of regionality for it.
>
> arnold
>

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