[Ads-l] An old usage
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 20 02:17:07 UTC 2020
Debate Politics Forumswww.debatepolitics.com › 355849-trumps-bad-economy-6
May 3, 2019 - You folks _talk about him like he had a tail_. Someone should
crack a history book ( you). W isn't the same person as HW.
An ancient turn of phrase amongst the colored. May be general Southern.
Ain't no tellin'. Never seen it in print, before.
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-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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