End of ADS-L Digest - 23 Sep 1995 to 24 Sep 1995

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Topics of the day:



 1. Sweet Fannie Adams (3)

 2. Linguistics as GE

 3. Gen Ed Linguistics (4)

 4. copy-ed re web usage urrl (fwd)

 5. Could I please ask... (2)

 6. gen ed

 7. fokall

 8. acceptability/grammaticality judgments, please -Reply

 9. sweet fannie adams

 10. One more judgment please

 11. Plural Proper Nouns (2)

 12. Plural 'they'



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Date:  Sun, 24 Sep 1995 23:26:15 -0700

From:  Rima & Kim McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>

Subject: Sweet Fannie Adams



At 7:03 PM 9/22/95, Nancy Dray wrote:

>When I hear people say "My Sainted Aunt" and "Sweet

>Fannie(y?) Adams" on those British PBS shows, do they mean what I think they

>mean?



As it turns out (we have a folk song expert as a friend; she refers us to

Kraft-Ebbing), Fannie Adams was a child victim of an especially grewsome

dismemberment in Victorian England. The renowned event gave rise to an

especially syrupy song, much heard in English music halls (think

vaudville). The use of "Sweet Fanny Adams!" therefore came to mean, "What

an unspeakable, scandalous horror!" A similar current example is the

aforementioned "going postal."



Now, what did you think it meant? :-)



r mckinzey