bugs

bug n One of the St. Anthony Doctors visiting out-patients came upon a woman who was carefully wrapped in paper. This explanation was offered: "if us didn't use he, the bugs would lodge their paws in we." "Bugs" are flies, and the use of "he" for "it" is...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1975
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/8448
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Summary:bug n One of the St. Anthony Doctors visiting out-patients came upon a woman who was carefully wrapped in paper. This explanation was offered: "if us didn't use he, the bugs would lodge their paws in we." "Bugs" are flies, and the use of "he" for "it" is characteristic. A skipper will talk about a lighthouse as he, just as he feminizes a ship, and the nominative case serves also as the objective. PRINTED ITEM APR 1975 G.M. Story JH APR 1975 Used I Used I Withdrawn bug lamp Withdrawn but no stamp

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