A pot fell off the table, _then_.
A pot fell off the table, _then_. My wife, who still uses bits of her Elliston girlhood dialect unconsciously, used this _then_ word frequently. It is not related to time denoting. It really means _so_, if placed at the beginning of the sentence: "_So_, a pot . . . table." JH 12/69 Not use...
Format: | Manuscript |
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Language: | English |
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1969
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Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/76203 |
Summary: | A pot fell off the table, _then_. My wife, who still uses bits of her Elliston girlhood dialect unconsciously, used this _then_ word frequently. It is not related to time denoting. It really means _so_, if placed at the beginning of the sentence: "_So_, a pot . . . table." JH 12/69 Not used Not used Withdrawn |
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