crow bites

[Mark Mandel]

Sorry, fuller reply. Is it at all possible that there are white people in
the area who have picked it up, directly or indirectly, from Carrier or
another language of the region?

m a m

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> i bring this query to you, habitues of dialectological circles:
>
> > From: Bill Poser <billposer2 at gmail.com>
> > Date: August 25, 2010 9:14:47 PM PDT
> > To: zwicky at stanford.edu
> > Subject: crow bites
> >=20
> > Arnold,
> >=20
> > Where I would say "I have a stich in my side" to indicate what happens =
> when you run too hard, Carrier has "datsan suzgwut" =3D "a crow pecked =
> me".
>

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