Re: My version

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 63244
Date: 2009-02-20

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:

> Along with other constructions exemplified in the same
> dictionary entry (<Them as thinks they can whup me jest
> come ahead> and <The car what hit him never stopped>), I
> wonder, and ask the connoisseurs of American English on
> the List, if this type of constructions isn't simply the
> product of an ignorance of English grammar.

It's using a variety of English with a grammar different
from that of the literary standard. The speaker may or may
not be ignorant of the literary standard.

Brian

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