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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: anglish is a musing
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 09:28:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 09:28:09 1985
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> One often finds transferences in people who learned their language skills
> more from audible means (discussion, TV) than from visual means (books,
> newspapers).  Friend of mine grew up thinking there was a time of day
> known as susmornin. "How are you susmornin?"  And one of the people here
> at work has a wonderful story about her younger days at church when she
> was convinced that the priest was praying "Me a cowboy, me a cowboy, me
> a Mexican cowboy" instead of "mea culpa".  And there is a wonderful
> transposition of words in the pledge of allegance, supposedly attributed
> to an asian youngster that ends "with liberty and just rice for all."

A more popular transference is "to the republic for Richard Stands."
And any little Xmas caroler can tell you about Round John Virgin...
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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