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Basil said:
You could lose a knot! "I know I left that knot around here somewhere!"
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And, by-golly, I suppose you could "win an award" if you were competing for it. :wink-new:
 
Basil said:
That's just a dialect thing. In West Virginia (my birth state) we would call a Creek a "Crick" and a wash cloth is a "worsh cloth" and we're taking a trip to Worshington DC.
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My wife and I were foster now adoptive parents of two african american kids. When we were advocating for their education services, we were told by the teachers that if they had not been told our kids were living with us - we are white - the kids would have been taught english with an allowable "african american dialect" ie axe vs ask, etc. My wife and I both were stunned and actually asked them to confirm we had heard what they said correctly, which they did.
 
The B-17 at March Field in Riverside, California......I saw it many times when the museum was on-base. It was a "leftover", built after the war with leftover parts for commercial use. Solid nose. Bottom of the nose....1/2 "G" cutout, patched, for chin turret, other earlier, solid, no cutout. No gun ports or ball turret, top turret.
They got it from South America...Argentina, I think...used to haul beef over the Andes.
Last time I was there, museum alongside the freeway, all painted, dummy guns and turrets....big placard stating "Hap Arnold's Private Plane".

Okay.
 
Silverghost said:
My wife and I were foster now adoptive parents of two african american kids. When we were advocating for their education services, we were told by the teachers that if they had not been told our kids were living with us - we are white - the kids would have been taught english with an allowable "african american dialect" ie axe vs ask, etc. My wife and I both were stunned and actually asked them to confirm we had heard what they said correctly, which they did.
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Lotta folks down here take issue with being corrected on stuff like that.
 
The English language has been in a constant state of flux ever since Germanic invaders brought their Anglo-Frisian dialects out of Europe.

I've read what's been posted here and can't help but wonder what our great-grandparents would have to say about the language that WE consider to be proper English.
 
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I know what one of my great grandfathers would say about the failure to teach cursive as he taught penmanship and calligraphy in a secretarial school before the Great War... His now 12 year old great great grandaughter, my niece, was told in her new school to not use it since they didn't teach it and they were concerned the other kids would feel bad about a classmate knowing something they didn't.
 
mikephillips said:
I know what one of my great grandfathers would say about the failure to teach cursive as he taught penmanship and calligraphy in a secretarial school before the Great War... His now 12 year old great great grandaughter, my niece, was told in her new school to not use it since they didn't teach it and they were concerned the other kids would feel bad about a classmate knowing something they didn't.
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That's tragic. On more than one level. Really.

Get her into a better school. Quickly.
 
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