From a post: "either" for "too/also"

[Herb Stahlke]

I've heard "eye-ther" and "n-eye-ther" for as long as I can remember, but
I'd always passed them off as an affectation.

Herb


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> I'm amazed how often I hear "EYE-ther" for "either" lately.  It always
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
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> > On Feb 20=2C 2014=2C at 7:31 PM=2C Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > > A. "14.0.6 shows up in MAU but it seems to be stuck in a loop=2C never
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> > > B. "Yeah=2C I'm getting the stuck-in-a-loop install _either_."
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> > Ouch.  This one seems weird to me.  I'm not Otto Jespersen=2C but if I
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> re to play him on TV=2C I'd diagnose this as a blend of "I'm getting the
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> uck-in-a-loop install too" and "I'm never installing either"=2C or some
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> h.  I guess if were Jerry Cohen I'd say the same.
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