End of ADS-L Digest - 15 Oct 1997 to 16 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 16 Oct 1997 to 17 Oct 1997
There are 8 messages totalling 279 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Naive queries?
 2. Ask your help
 3. Warning! and a Request
 4. Etymology of _Hoosier_
 5. thank you . . . thank you (2)
 6. <No subject given>
 7. PUPPY PIE

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Date:  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:01:30 +0100
From:  Aaron Drews <aaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LING.ED.AC.UK>
Subject: Naive queries?

    First of all, I think Terry's idea of letting the students on the
list is great for all sorts of reasons.
    Secondly, I have a "naive" question myself.
    Lately, I've come across the term "in future" in American
language. It was in a recent novel I'm reading by an American author. A
few days ago, some lawyer or another concerned with the Federal
campaigning case said something about being concerned with an item in
future.
    When I first came to Scotland, "in future" sounded odd to me, but
I took it to be a dialect syntactic variation. As a General American
speaker, I would have never said "in future", rather "in the future".
    "We will be allowing undergraduates on the list in (the) future",
for example. The <the> is obligatory for me.
    Is this something that's changing in American speech, or did I
miss that day in school?
    Cheers!
        Aaron

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