Churchill quote: spurious?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Abba Eban was a politician with a distinct British accent.

So he's interchangeable with Churchill, but not with Mark Twain.

JL

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Churchill quote: spurious?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > their accents (well, the BBC sort)
>
> These days, any sort of Old-Blightly-ish accent is sufficient to fill
> the bill, from the Garden-Gnome through the Gecko to the late-night,
> not-available-in-stores hawkers.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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.
> -Mark Twain
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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