Alls a regionalisim?
Any research been done into the origin of the word "alls"? As in; "Alls I know". Not sure if it is a regionalism, or not. Might it be a contraction of "All I know is"? My wife and I both use the term,...
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Speaking of regionalism -- Stationed in the Army in TX. I had a g/f from Alabama, and I started picking up the regionalisms, to the point that my dad warned me about returning to Oregon "if I was...
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My wife, who is from the North East, is amazed at the people that speak "Southern". She says that she can't understand how they can take a whole paragraph to say one sentence, then turn around and say...
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I lived in chicago for 20 years and LA for 20 years, and alls I know is that it is in common usage in both places, though I don't think I've ever seen it in print before...with the possible exception...
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I'm not sure why the subject of Catcher in the Rye researching the OED would come up in the first place, but why the "stodgy old OED"? You do realize their online version has very recent quotes and...
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re the OED: truth be told, I don't like the fact that they charge so much money to use what seems like it should be public domain, and I don't like the heavy tilt toward British English, which I feel...
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Well, to be fair it takes a lot of money to produce the OED. While OUP is not a for-profit operation, they do need to pay the bills. I don't think the price is out of line for the value--and when...
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Interesting comment, Dave. I'm surprised British English still is the international standard. Not sorry, just surprised.
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British English, which I feel is like Latin is to Italian, French, or Spanish. There, I said it!Good for you!Now maybe you'll retract it because biased and ignorant statements like that are very...
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"Now maybe you'll retract it because biased and ignorant statements like that are very likely to get you into trouble with those you've offended. Even if you "love" them."Apologizing and Retracting,...
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You were trolling? You remind me of someone - not wordgeek, someone else, though I can't think of the name right now.
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what is trolling? If it's a bad thing, I hope I wasn't doing it...Would it help to let you know that I can recite all the words to "I Have Often Walked Down this Street Before?" Even before the...
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Wordgeek was the resident troll on this site until he was banned; he'd routinely post deliberately ignorant/silly questions and comments and get people all stirred up trying to prove to him he was...
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language hat--I take it you are intimating that I am a "troll"...truth is I like to check into this site as a pleasant diversion to learn something new or clever or witty as I watch my day-trading...
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Wow, are you gefillmore under another name?In any event, you're remarkably touchy, and you've wasted an absurd amount of time going through my comments. As it happens, I wasn't "intimating that you...
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yes you're right about that it DID take an absurd amount of time to collect all those...but why not encourage and challenge people rather than making psychological judgements about misplaced...
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Quote:language hat--I take it you are intimating that I am a "troll"...truth is I like to check into this site as a pleasant diversion to learn something new or clever or witty as I watch my...
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Pete, languagehat isn't the one who suggested you were trolling -- that was Eliza, if you'll look above. As LH said, he merely answered your request for an explanation. Talk about shooting the...
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you are right, and I might even add it's not content so much as the delivery that I react to. (Obviously this is not the first time this has come up in my life...) But see, you have a very delicate...
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Well, your guess about my occupation is a good one, as you can see by looking at my profile (just click on my name. You might consider adding any information you'd like to share about yourself to your...
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