A little more haplology.

[Anthony Grant]

Dear Catherine:

Don't spread this too wide, seeing that we 'invented; the language,  but we
Brits have pronlems with what to do with 'lighning' too.  Most people don't
like 'to lighten' but don't know what to say instead.

I'm always amused by the HU/AC item in your address list, as it puts me in
mund of the House Unamerican Activities Committee of past ill-fame!

Best

Anthony


----- Original Message -----
From: Catherine Rudin/HU/AC/WSC <CaRudin1 at wsc.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: A little more haplology.


> I seem to have somehow sent this just to Pam (unlike the usual thing of
> accidentally broadcasting a personal note to a whole list...)  It's not
> that important, but since we seem to have gotten into geographic spread of
> "to lightning", I'll send it along for what it's worth.  I grew up in a
> mostly European immigrant Jewish community in Wisconsin with Texas
> interludes, so "my dialect" is a bit of a hybrid, but it seems to me the
> other kids used lightning as a verb in both Madison and Houston.
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> ----- Forwarded by Catherine Rudin/HU/AC/WSC on 01/14/03 08:25 AM -----
>  "I saw it lightning" is fine.   So is "It lightnings a lot in summer
> around here."  "It thundered last night but it didn't lightning hardly at
> all."
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> The verb "lighten," on the other hand, has nothing to do with what goes on
> in the sky; it's something that happens to colors and loads and moods.
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> Now if only I had any such clear insights into anything Siouan...  :-)
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