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Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Thursday, February 27, 2003, 2:20
Roger Mills wrote:
> Joe wrote: > >>He's right there. I got confused by my(Yorkshire) grandfather saying >>[In?l&v], 'in the lav' or 'in the toilet. Which, in the UK, means 'in the >>bathroom', > > > Is this possibly a reduced form of "int"? (perhaps for earlier [Int@]?) > which I seem to recall seeing in novels etc. that tried to depict > non-standard UK dialects (I'm thinking principally of Stella Gibbons' "Cold > Comfort Farm"-- it may be a send-up of a mish-mash of dialects. These stick > in my mind: > nowt for nothing (naught) > summat for something, and the wonderful > leetle brush for clettering the dishes
I thik "int" is supposed to be a shortened form of "isn't it".