Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 16:42:06 -0500

From: Molly Dickmeyer dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JBLSMTP.PHL.LRPUB.COM

Subject: mouth ulcers and plagiarism -Reply



Beverly:



I grew up with "give it me," and, being from PA Dutch country, always

assumed it was a German syntactical remnant in the vein of "outten

the light" and "throw the horse over the fence some hay" and "have

you your mittens."



My two queries:



Answering Beverly's post made me think of some other oddities I grew

up with--the terms "have a catch" (rather than to play catch, i.e.,

throw a ball back and forth between two or more people), and a term

for calves (of the bovine variety)--"hummies". Any thoughts on the

origins of these, anyone?



molly