Re: CHAT: Un-American activities, was Re: Ungrammaticalization?

"J. Barefoot" wrote:
> those stupid bumper stickers: "If it's not Scottish, it's crap." That's
> [xrap].
Ah, that was from an old SNL skit, it was a show called "All Things
Scottish" or something like that, "Our slogan is, 'If it's not Scottish,
IT'S CRAP!" (and actually, it's more like [Xr&p] with a uvular
fricative, IIRC, plus, I think "not" was pronounced something like [nO?]
or [na?]

And I also have nothing against Canadians, I should explain that my
brother and I have a sort of in-joke about prejudices.

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hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
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