Klarinet Archive - Posting 000999.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Coughy or ti?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:43:22 -0400

At 07:07 AM 5/20/99 EDT, Susan Schwaegler wrote:
>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!
>
It shows up again and again in eBay product descriptions. I believe it has
gone national! I had not heard it either until just the last year or two.
I is a situation that needs "fixed!"

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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