End of ADS-L Digest - 7 Jan 1996 to 8 Jan 1996

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There are 7 messages totalling 115 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Budge (3)

 2. Help! (R.E.M. lyrics)

 3. poor as an owl

 4. budge

 5. 'old maid'



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Date:  Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:35:59 -0500

From:  Charity Stafford <cls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORLD.STD.COM>

Subject: Re: Budge



Just to further muddy the waters - 8-) - my mother

(age 62, born Providence, RI, mostly native to eastern

Massachusetts) uses "budge" occasionally as a positive,

*transitive* verb - "Go see if you can budge your father."

But I suspect this is family dialect - we make up a lot

of stuff.



Charity