that costly "missing g"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Six Swans A-Swimming

Not to mention

"A frog he would _a-wooing_ go"

--
-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