Date:  Mon, 5 Jan 1998 13:05:33 -0500
From:  Beverly Flanigan <FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: All-America teams

  "I vas dere, Charley"--wow, that's a real oldie, one my mother (b.
  1906) used. Note that she, a Minnesotan, always said 'vas,' not 'was,'
  and the 's' was unvoiced. (She was obviously imitating a phrase she'd
  heard, but where did it come from?)