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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: For y'all's enjoyment
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:39:28 -0500 (EST)


i was at a linguistics conference in which a long study of "the
might-could that lives in texas" was laboriously described. turns out that
"might-could" is used most strongly by native texans at the upper and
lower ends of the economic spectrum. the middle being most likely to give
up their linguistic specialness.

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