"Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]

[Mark Mandel]

If I remember to do so, I will dig out my dead-trees *Ian & Sylvia
Songbook*at home and check in that.

m a m

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Larry Horn wrote:
>
> > There are a couple thousand hits for "blow you old blue norther",
> > which is the way I've always heard it.  Let me check...  Yes, Judy
> > Collins indeed sings it with the "n".  I have it mentally stored
> > without one, though, so I'm figuring that was from the Ian and Sylvia
> > version that I unfortunately don't have on iTunes.
>
> i have the Ian and Sylvia version on iTunes, and i hear an n.
>
> arnold
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org