antedating of y'all (1704)
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jan 18 03:46:33 UTC 2014
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:25 PM, David Parker <dparker at kennesaw.edu> wrote:
> Heav’n
The same pronunciation as eye-phonetic "heb'm/hebb'm" of the same meaning?
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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