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From: George M Gibault <gmg at direct.ca>
Subject: Negatives and borrowings
Hi again!
The multiplication of negatives reminds me of a lovely line in a well known
Scots and sometimes Irish folksong "The Wild Rover" the chorus of which
goes:
"No nay never - no nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more."
The Scots have lovely ways of being emphatic - as the recent paperback
collection of maledictions "Awa and Bile Yer Heid" makes clear.
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