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From: riggsby@h-sc1.UUCP (andrew riggsby)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Proof by citation
Message-ID: <994@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 18:21:17 EST
Article-I.D.: h-sc1.994
Posted: Mon Mar 17 18:21:17 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 02:09:16 EST
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Reply-To: riggsby@h-sc1.UUCP (andrew riggsby)
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
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In article <1400005@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>
>Andrew Riggsby says that "e'en" and "e'er" are words that are appropriate
>in poetry but not in speech. He has obviously never been to the village
>of Great Easton, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
True.  This brings up another problem in "proof by citation"--accounting 
for variations in local dialect.
                            Andrew Riggsby
                           riggsby@harvunxu