Date:    Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:06:39 -0400
<br>From:    Larry Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: P.S. on banshees
<br>
<br>Correction:  I just altered the search command on Nexis and came up with
<br>two additional cites (besides the Pell-Safire one), one from the Orlando
<br>Sentinel in 1991 (quoting an environmental sculptor) and one from the
<br>Chicago Tribune in 1990 (quoting the village manager of Bolingbrook, Ill.).
<br>It's possible, of course, that these four instances are all isolated ones,
<br>with each speaker performing his (they're all male) own reanalysis of "Xing
<br>like banshees", but it's also conceivable that the expression has in fact
<br>shifted in langue rather than parole for some variety of English.  Any
<br>guesses?
<br>
<br>Larry
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