Date:    Mon, 4 May 1998 08:50:19 -0700
<br>From:    Grant Smith <gsmith[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EWU.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: regional distribution?
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<br>Always the second choice in Bellingham WA and at college in Portland OR
<br>(50s & early 60s)--sometimes starting with 99, sometimes with 100.
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<br>>Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] SLIP.NET> on 05/04/98 02:26:34 AM
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<br>>Please respond to American Dialect Society <ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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<br>>To:   ADS-L [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
<br>>cc:    (bcc: Wendalyn Nichols/Trade/RandomHouse)
<br>>Subject:  regional distribution?
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<br>>There was a Bizarro cartoon in the paper on Saturday (5/2) showing a family
<br>>happily singing in a car.  The caption was "The lexicon family singers on a
<br>>road trip."  They were singing:
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<br>>"...One less than 100 glass, narrow-necked containers of alcoholic
<br>>beverages brewed from barley & hops on the room-dividing structure - one
<br>>less than 100 glass, narrow-necked containers of alcohholic beverages
<br>>brewed from barley & hops.  Take one down, pass it around...."
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<br>>My question, though, is how many of you sang (sing?) that with "take one
<br>>down, pass it around..." and how many with "If one of those bottles should
<br>>happen to fall, (number) bottles of beer on the wall"?
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<br>>I learned the second choice - in NYC.
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<br>>Rima
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<br>>(Of course, then there was the explanation of recursive music someone gave
<br>>me.  The example was "100 bottles of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer.
<br>>Take one down, put it back up, 100 bottles of beer on the wall."
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