Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[Gerald Walton]

I do not remember ever hearing in Mississippi "won't" used with the
meaning "was not" or "were not."
Gerald


>In North Carolina, where I live, and particularly in the eastern part, there
>is a tendency to use "won't" to mean "was not" or "were not".
>Ex: Q: "Who ate that last piece of pie?"
>       A: "It won't me".
>
>Does this practice exist anywhere else? I have lived in and travelled thru
>much of the South, and don't recall hearing it anywhere else.
>
>Bill Palmer
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scot LaFaive" <slafaive at GMAIL.COM>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:38 PM
>Subject: Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
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> > Poster:      Scot LaFaive <slafaive at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:     Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
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> >
> > I will readily admit that Ron does speak openly, almost painfully so,
> > about
> > what displeases him, but any anger directed toward Tom isn't because he
> > dare
> > violate some traditionalist doctrine. It's because he continually says the
> > same thing without regard for what people more knowledgeable in the field
> > than him are saying. It's like if I went on a biology forum with the
> > little
> > I know of the science and proclaimed various ideas that experts in the
> > field
> > knew to be false, but I didn't listen anyway and just kept on trucking.
> > It's
> > rather offensive after awhile.
> >
> > Scot
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/20/09, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> >> Poster:      Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET>
> >> Subject:     Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
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> >> I'm new to this list, but a veteran of many others. I expected more
> >> elevated discourse from the professorate, from which I'm guessing most of
> >> these posts originate.
> >>
> >> Of what value is the nastiness found so regularly in this forum, except
> >> to
> >> distract from whatever topic is under discussion?
> >>
> >> Obviously TZ dares to violate borders that are jealously guarded by the
> >> traditionalists.
> >>
> >> Bill Palmer
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <ronbutters at AOL.COM>
> >> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:59 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
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> >> > Poster:      ronbutters at AOL.COM
> >> > Subject:     Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> > The point of "how like him" is that TZ rarely answers posts that
> >> > directly
> >> > co=
> >> > ntradict his positions--he simply ignores them. There is no rational
> >> > discour=
> >> > se with him, only his continued insistence that his opinions are facts,
> >> > even=
> >> > when they are contradicted by basic findings of linguistic science.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Not that your opinion of what is or is not "insulting" is relevant. If
> >> you
> >> > t=
> >> > hink that I or anyone else is being unnecessarily abusive, report the
> >> > incide=
> >> > nt to the list owner. Your lectures on bad manners are in themselves,
> >> > arroga=
> >> > nt, insulting, and irrelevant.=C2=A0
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM>
> >> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> > Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 6:52 pm
> >> > Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:39 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> But how like him to ignore the evidence and cling tenaciously to an
> >> >> irreleva=3D
> >> >> nt statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Insulting wording. How about:
> >> > But he is ignoring the evidence and clinging tenaciously to an
> >> > irrelevant
> >> > statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Randy Alexander
> >> > Jilin City, China
> >> > My Manchu studies blog:
> >> > http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu
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