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Re: druthers

zmjezhd #175403 04/01/2008 10:35 AM

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Faldage

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Faldage

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And the big step is not the vowel shift of rather to ruther or the shift of the d from I'd to druther but the nouning of the adverb. Dunno so much about Capp, but Twain was an excellent recorder of dialects.

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