eye dialect was RE: nekkid

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> the 1973 cite "Wail, I comed that little old gal, then I crawled
> off." I'd have thought "brought (off)" would have gone down better in
> that context.

So, you're saying that that eye-dialect _Wail_ for "well" actually
*raised* your expectations instead of lowering them.

Interesting. ;-)

-Wilson

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