[Ads-l] Dodge that structure!

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Dec 10 00:59:42 UTC 2022


I got that Oxford shirt,
I got that Oxford comma,
I got my Oxford CERT,*
And all the Oxon. drama.

LH

*https://oxfordcert.org

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 2:45 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I got them Oxford blues.
> I got them Oxford blues
> From the top of my head to the bottom of my oxford shoes.
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 8:57 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You mean the Royal "Oxford Blues" Band?
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 2:49 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Birth of the blues?
> > >
> > > 1814  _Morning Post_ (London) (Aug. 29) 3:  The Royal Oxford Blues Band
> > was
> > > there, and played many fine tunes.
> > >
> > > JL
> > > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> > truth."
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> > >
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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