[Ads-l] "young guns" and "young 'uns"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 28 03:48:22 UTC 2015
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote about "young guns" for my Wall St. Journal column this week --
> crediting Neal's great research:
>
Somehow, I'm reminded of Long Island v. Long Guy-land.
--
-Wilson
-----
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
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list