Ary

Donald McCaig mccaig at MGWNET.COM
Thu Jan 3 13:58:53 UTC 2013


Dear Linguists,

I'm a historical novelist and keeping speech rhythms and dialect
appropriate to the time helps the reader participate.

I'd like to know early uses of the southern "ary" for "any" and the
word's relationship to "Nary".

Donald McCaig

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