Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:53:24 -0800

From: "Alan S. Kaye" AKAYE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU

Subject: Re: Proverbial Knowledge



Re Dennis' question on "You pays your money..."

It goes back to the last century and it was a proverb not having

anything to do with gambling, but rather with peepshows.



Incidentally, anyone have the answer on the -s for "pays" and "takes",

which all my ESL students correct to "pay" and "take" saying that

the proverb contains 2 grammatical errors.



Alan Kaye, Linguistics, CSU, Fullerton, CA 92634

akaye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]fullerton.edu