_bees_

[Kathy Heilenman]

Hate to add to the confusion, but "You be good for Grandma, now, and if you
are..." is exactly what *I* would say (grew up in Kentucky).  The "do"
sounds really, really odd.
Kathy


At 3:01 PM 4/17/97, Ellen L. Contini-Morava wrote:
>Yup.
>Ellen C-M
>
>
>On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 David_Tuggy at SIL.ORG wrote:
>
>>      Re _bees, beed_: the following judgment holds for me:
>>
>>      You be good for Grandma, now, and if you do / ??*are I'll buy you an
>>      ice-cream cone.
>>
>>      "Are" sounds pedantic if not just plain wrong.
>>      Anybody concur?
>>
>>      --David Tuggy
>>

L. Kathy Heilenman
French & Italian
U. of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
(319) 335-2253
L-HEILENMAN at UIOWA.EDU