Unrelated questions (was Re: Two countries)
| From: | Geoffrey Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 18, 2003, 18:11 |
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> its good as all git out.
Anyone know the origin of the phrase "... as all get out"? Is it an
odd derrivation from "all got up" i.e. "fancied up", "decorated"? I
grew up hearing the phrase used by my Deep South peers.
On another note, a friend asked me how Brits differentiate "ta-ta"
for "goodbye" from "tata" for breast. I told him that I believed it
was primarily by tone and stress: [ta"ta:_H] versus ["tata]. Yes? No?
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