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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Ring around the rosie(s) (6)
<br>  2. wife-beaters
<br>  3. Dialect geography (WAS: GREASY/GREAZY)
<br>  4. Accent Reduction Therapy - Yoruba (4)
<br>  5. standardization of non-standard forms (2)
<br>  6. "A prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich"
<br>  7. Dialect Discrimination
<br>  8. More about ham sandwiches
<br>  9. Ole Ole Olson, etc (2)
<br> 10. Looking for Informants (2)
<br> 11. almost-malaprops
<br> 12. your dad
<br> 13. interesting stuff here
<br> 14. On caring less
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<br>Date:    Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:53:11 -0800
<br>From:    Devon Coles  dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HORIZON.BC.CA 
<br>Subject: Re: Ring around the rosie(s)
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<br>Beverly Flannigan wrote:
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<br> And while we're on games (a new thread?), does anybody recall "Antie I
<br> over" (sp?)?  We played it (throwing a ball over the house and then running
<br> around to tag people), but I have no idea where the phrase came from.  (I
<br> think I looked it up in DARE once but can't recall whether the words were
<br> explained or not.)  Ditto with "Allie allie in/oxen free"--why these words?
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<br>In Northern Ontario, mid 1950s, we played "eevie, ivy over" throwing a ball
<br>over the house, etc. Also, whoever was "it" in Hide-and-Go-Seek (not hide
<br>and seek as I have heard often in the years since) would call "allie allie
<br>out's and free!"  I, too, have no idea where these phrases came from. Just
<br>swell memories of summer evenings that lasted until 10 o'clock or so, and
<br>the long gone joy of wooden screen doors."Here, you kids - don't slam that
<br> slam!  door!"
<br>Cheers,
<br>Devon Coles
<br>dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]horizon.bc.ca
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