Origins of the Word "Soccer"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:39 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A. were he to be asked what was his most pleasant recollection of Oxford
> life
>

I'm running on memory fumes, as usual, but didn't Labov write that this
construction of the "embedded question" was peculiar to BE, as opposed to
the "standard"

B. "were he to be asked what his most pleasant recollection of Oxford life
was"

FWIW, my impression, based on dekkids of hearing and reading, is that these
constructions are like "economics" and "(n)either,"

"You can get with this / Or you can get with that / The choice is yours,"

as the song goes, regardless of race, etc.. I choose B and "(n)eether." I
have no personal preference WRT "economics."

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-Wilson
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