on the other hand

[Wilson Gray]

I'm with you, Charlie. I'm no fan of Dubya, needless to say, but,
"September _the_ eleventh"? What in the world is wrong with that?! Ah
bin hin it n sane it awl ma laugh. It's "standard" BE and also
probably "standard" SE.It's far and away more common than "on _the_
one hand," in my experience.

-Wilson
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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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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> I gotta say, the purported Bushism "September the eleventh" sounds perfectly normal to me. (Not a proud fact, but Bush and I are both Texans--he considerabaly less so!)
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>>Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:38:52 -0500
>>From: Victor <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
>>Subject: Re: on the other hand>
>>I did not ask because I was too lazy to do a Google search. In fact, the
>>original source that I cited used "on the one side", which sounds
>>radically bad to my ear. To be honest, I cringe when I hear "on the one
>>side" as well, but it doesn't bother me quite as much as "on the one
>>side". Somewhere in that neighborhood is the Bushism, "September the
>>eleventh", which, to me, seems to be a blend. The former two are likely
>>unrelated to the latter. Also, with respect to the latter expression, I
>>most commonly hear it from non-native-English European speakers with
>>rather good command of the language. You mileage clearly may vary on all
>>fronts.
>>
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