Ary

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net> wrote:
> The distribution of "ary" doesn't quite match that of "any", at least judging by Andy Griffith's "Football" sketch, when he says, "Before I could get ary mouthful of that Big Orange drink...". Here it seems to mean something like "even a".

That's right.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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