Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 17:39:20 -0400

From: "Dennis R. Preston" preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU

Subject: Re: slown down



Is this the time to remind people to re-read Harol Allen's 'On accepting

participial drank'? Wasn't it a golden oldie in American Speech?



Dennis



"If I hadn't dranken so much water, I wunta slown down"--overheard in Duke

University locker room, spoken by a male undergraduate discussing a mistake

he had made in pick-up basketball game



Dennis R. Preston

Department of Linguistics and Languages

Michigan State University

East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA

preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]pilot.msu.edu

Office: (517)432-1235

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