Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 07:46:35 -0500

From: Alan R Slotkin ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU

Subject: Re: Why



The first usage is one that I've heard all my life--born in NYC in 1940s; my

mother, from Ithaca, NY, used it until strokes took her speech about 8 years

ago. My father, from NYC, uses it to this day. The second usage is

unfamiliar to me.



Alan Slotkin

ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]tntech.edu