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

[Eric Nielsen]

Not to be confused with--because they had no pieces of Aes tech.

Eric


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com>
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> > 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.
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> My mother used that pronunciation, as do other people that I know,
> including my wife. So, it has never struck me as an affectation.
> Nevertheless, I prefer to use the "ee" pronunciation, myself.
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> Heard on local - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre - radio:
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> "That's your opinion and this is mine. Rather, it's _Mayan_ [maj at n], as we
> say around these parts, heyna?"
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