Makes my teeth itch.

Larry Sheldon LarrySheldon at COX.NET
Mon Mar 19 17:19:11 UTC 2012


On 3/19/2012 12:10 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> My intent was to trigger a discussion among the people here that
> actually know what they are talking about from which I could learn.
>
> Failure noted.
>
> The horse is dead.

One last note before I go:  Some of those are so common, even among
learned and articulate people, that I supposed in error that they
constituted components of American Dialect, like "ain't" and "y'all".
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