End of ADS-L Digest - 12 Dec 1995 to 13 Dec 1995

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There are 38 messages totalling 1025 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Proverbial Knowledge (15)

 2. co'cola

 3. Proverbial knowledge

 4. Question-begging (2)

 5. <No subject given>

 6. Chances and 2nd per -s

 7. Eats its head off (2)

 8. pop and soda (3)

 9. NEW WORDS, Please!

 10. Hens' Teeth

 11. Videos dealing with topics in sociolinguistics (2)

 12. Unauth Index to "American Tongues" - Improvements Invited (6)

 13. proverbial knowledge

 14. Unauth Index to "American...



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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