Re: USAGE: Knock and knock-knock

Patrick Dunn wrote:

> DeKalb, being famous for its hybrid corn, is a large farming
> town.
I note that you also have a campus in Oregon, Illinois: that must make
for confusions.  (For non-Usonians, Oregon is also one of the U.S. states.)
Similarly, there is the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania, with its
confusing university, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Not to
be confused with Indiana University (in various cities in Indiana).
Indiana also has East Chicago (Chicago is back in Illinois), and then
there's West New York, New Jersey.  What a farrago.

> When I go back to visit, it takes me all of fifteen minutes to
> slip right back into warshing my hands, so he says, so I says, so he says,
> ain't, and all the other pleasant little variations.
Well, at least it's "I says/he says" and not simply "I'm/he's".  *grumble*

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