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#78873 - 08/23/02 02:53 PM the "be" prefix
Winthrop stranger Registered: 08/23/02 Posts: 1	A friend related that she had instructed her young son to "behave." Irritated, he replied, "I am have."
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#78874 - 08/23/02 03:13 PM Re: the "be" prefix
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear Winthrop: My compliments to the young man. I'd be interested to know how his mother extricated herself from her predicament.
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#78875 - 08/24/02 10:29 AM Re: the "be" prefix
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	I'd be interested to know how his mother extricated herself from her predicament. Well, you won't be having like that around me, anymore, young man!....?
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#78876 - 08/24/02 12:20 PM Re: the "be" prefix
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	This, of course, is nonsense. Kids learn first by hearing, then by reading. On second thought: How did the kid pronounce "have"?
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#78877 - 08/24/02 02:05 PM Re: To be or not to be--that is the question.
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	Hmmmmm.... We've got -havior, -hemoth, -lated, -loved, -holden, -smirched.... Between you and me, be seems to be something to be rather than not to be.
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