Dialect variation in the Times

[Darla Wells]

We were just arguing this on Facebook: I always hear that line in Electric
Light Orchestra's Blinded by the Light as "wrapped up like a douche, another
runner in the night" but was informed that it was "like a deuce" talking
about auto racing...
Darla Wells




2011/8/21 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > But in general,
> > when quoting a lyric, even if you're not *exactly* sure what it is,
> should
> > you trust your ear, or go with an online source many other people
> apparently
> > agree upon?
>
> i say, "Go with your ear."
>
> That way, you don't make mistakes like citing
>
> "I've got to keep to the highway"
>
> as the opening line of the blues classic,
>
> [I Got the] Key to the Highway.
>
> --
> -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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