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To: Morgana

I live in PA so I’ve gotten used to split infinitives, but when someone abridges it — for example, “needs fixed” instead of “needs to be fixed” — my soul is afflicted.

Only worse thing is when someone pronounces the indefinite article “a” as a long vowel.

I earned my first dollar as a proofreader at age 12, so maybe I can’t help it and needs pitied not censured.


89 posted on 04/06/2016 1:53:25 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: Buttons12
Do yinz realize that it is only in PA that we refer to our glorious commonwealth as Pee-Aye? Everywhere else, PA mean public address, Palestinian Authority or something else entirely different from Penn's Woods.

We need to Redd Up the way we talk to outsiders!

96 posted on 04/06/2016 1:58:19 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Buttons12

You mean Pennsylvania the state of yinz?


127 posted on 04/06/2016 2:19:54 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a witp)
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To: Buttons12

I live in W.MD so it’s properly “It needs a’fixin’”.

:)


128 posted on 04/06/2016 2:20:35 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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