At 6:18 PM -0500 3/30/01, Greg Iverson wrote:
>That is certainly true here in North Carolina. Some folk still say once,
>twice, thrice when refering to the number of times something occured.
>That fits the English from about the time of King James and Shakespear.
>
>Gregg
>
You forgot the backwoods appalachian folks that still spoke elizabethian
english and were studied by some phd types some time ago. TV is going to
make us all speak the same language.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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