[Ads-l] "on accident"

Tue Jun 21 00:45:52 UTC 2016

Which happened all of a sudden?

Joel

      From: Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at SKECHERS.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 4:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "on accident"

My wife's mother, who was half Danish and raised in Idaho, often said "it was all on a accident".  

It may have been an idiosyncrasy of her father, a native speaker of Danish who emigrated to America at the age of 14.

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