Klarinet Archive - Posting 000952.txt from 1999/05

From: SDSCHWAEG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Coughy or ti?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 07:07:29 -0400

In a message dated 5/19/99 10:46:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
bhausman@-----.com writes:

<< My favorite lately is constructions like, "It needs repaired." I am seeing
and hearing this far too often lately. >>

Wow! This construction is RAMPANT where I live (the Quad Cities - around
Davenport, IA). I'd never heard it until I moved here from the Chicago area.
I'd always thought it was some kind of local expression; you mean they say
this in other places, too? Scary!

Susan Schwaegler

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