"This ruling doesn't _only_ affect patients."

[Wilson Gray]

When, back in the '60's, I heard fellow-Texan Archie Bell of The Drells say,

"We don't _only_ sing"

I thought, "Wow! 'Only'? That's weird! He should have used 'just' in that
environment!"

Somehow, after a half-century, "doesn't only" / "don't only" in place of
"... just" *still* sounds "wrong," somehow. This doesn't rise to the level
of a pet peeve, but it does jar. Why, I wonder.

Youneverknow.

-- 
-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.
-Mark Twain

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