[Ads-l] Urban legend? Or fact?

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I think it's always "dearly belov-ed"


I think that it's always "belov-ed." That's probably a function of my
advanced age and a consequence of dialect-conversion. Converts take
whatever they've been converted to more seriously than those who've been
born to it, for whom it represents nothing special.


-- 
-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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