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[Alice Faber]

On 1/3/12 11:56 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Alice Faber wrote:
>>
>>  From a forum posting about today's wind storm in the UK:
>>
>> "We‚re in central Scotland. The Forth Bridge is shut, cos you don‚t want
>> blown off that fucker"
>>
>> (Yes, it's *that* kind of forum, but I was struck by the "want blown
>> off" construction from somewhere other than western PA and its environs.)
>
> discussions of such uses of want/need geberally trace them back to Scotland (or to Scots-Irish more generally).
>
I kind of thought so, but didn't have anything concrete to pin that on,
and so didn't speculate.


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