Heard on The Doctors: "I was shaking to the core." [NT]
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 7 19:51:13 UTC 2012
Ghits: 26,200 for "was shaking…", not in EcDb
IAC, the "correction" of -en to -ing is nothing new, as everybody knows.
Spoken by a Canadian university coed.
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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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