On 8/11/06, Robin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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"?
yerbut
> 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?
A small research grant in the offing maybe? Then the Rodent School Of
Instantaneous Linguistics? I see a bright future for you in my crystal
bowl.
I suspect that Tony Blair is George Bush's trailing but. Hey ho.
> Should this be lodged on Wikipedia?
Gofurit.
Roger
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