"This ruling doesn't _only_ affect patients."

[Margaret Lee]

I remember the Archie Bell and The Drells' lyric as 'We NOT only sing...'

--Margaret Lee


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> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
>Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 9:35 PM
>Subject: "This ruling doesn't _only_ affect patients."
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>
>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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