End of ADS-L Digest - 12 Mar 1994 to 13 Mar 1994

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There are 8 messages totalling 165 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Adam's Off Ox

 2. Nominative Us

 3. Conscious Learning of Accent (5)

 4. Actors & Accent



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Date:  Mon, 14 Mar 1994 08:05:33 -0600

From:  Larry Davis <DAVIS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU>

Subject: Adam's Off Ox



Mathews's DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS (p. 1148) does list ADAM'S OFF OX as the

following:



"a stubborn, clumsy, unmanageable person, _colloq_."



The quotations are as follows:



"1848 Lowell BIGELOW P. I Ser. 90 Ezto the answerin' o' questions, I'm an off

ox at bein' druv. 1903 D.N. II 352 off ox, n. One who is usually on the

opposite side of a popular movement."