Dunno, but I remember James Bolam in the Likely Lads frequently used the
locution 'though but', obviously a more elaborate form of the same
fenomenon.
P
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> Subject: Re: the truth about truthiness
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> > Doncha just love wikipedia? Wouldn't build a nuclear
> reactor from it
> > but ...
> >
> > Roger
>
> As a real-time hands-on socio-linguistic
> you-heard-it-here-first observation, has anyone else noticed
> the gradual spread of the Glasgow grammatical locution, the
> trailing "but"?
>
> Is this local to poetryetc or is it general on internet
> lists? In bus queues in Upper Haddington? Does President
> George W. Bush use it?
>
> Should this be lodged on Wikipedia?
>
> RR.
>
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