Re: Thoughts based on two recent threads (Greylist and DBL).

s=F8n, 29.05.2005 kl. 02.24 skrev mouss:

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> <OT but I'd like to know>
> Now that we are in the grammar stuff, why are there 's' letters in know=
s=20
> and sees in: "only knows as I sees"? (so that I sleep less stupid:) [an=
d=20
> of course, if I can discover who this Mable was... that would deserve a=
n=20
> e-beer]
> </OT>

My grandma had a cleaning lady, Mable, from London who used London
dialect, and this was one of her expressions when she was accused of
exaggerating. In this case, she was saying that she really did see it.
All languages I speak (3) have similar slang expressions.

--Tonni

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