Important, overlooked quote

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 3 00:27:46 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:27 PM,  <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
> Not that this thread has anything whatever to do with American Dialects.

Well, abstracting away from that, I found Jon's post to be quite
interesting. Why, I had no idea! My impression was that the United
States that we all know and love dated essentially only from Woodrow
Wilson's administration. Well,

Youneverknow.

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-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.
-Mark Twain

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