Date:    Thu, 7 May 1998 18:24:52 -0400
<br>From:    Wendalyn Nichols <wnichols[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RANDOMHOUSE.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: Ten green bottles
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<br>Or on a fairly short coach trip, if the back of the coach is full of
<br>completely legless lager louts singing in their best estuary English, "An'
<br>if one green bo'oh should acciden'ly fall..."  Not an experience I want to
<br>repeat!
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<br>"A. Vine" <avine [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] ENG.SUN.COM> on 05/07/98 04:38:05 PM
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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>Subject:  Ten green bottles
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<br>One little side note on "Ten green bottles" vs. "99 bottles of beer on
<br>the wall" - the tunes are a bit different.  Upon asking my English
<br>source about "Ten green bottles", he sang it for me.  Not as rollicking
<br>as the American tune, IMO.  So I asked him in what situation he would
<br>sing it:  at a football game, in a pub?  To which he replied, "On long,
<br>boring coach trips when there's bugger-all else to do."
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<br>Andrea
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