[Ads-l] The New Yorker Comma Queen on "they", part II

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 10 23:04:04 UTC 2016


Y'know, I never knew that. Thanks, Wilson.

Mark

On Apr 2, 2016 8:07 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Youneverknow
>
> when it comes to old saws, in which _saw_ is the regular, English reflex
of
> the same, proto-Germanic form that has gives us _saga_ and, of course,
> _say_.

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