Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!grass From: grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Sayings Message-ID: <10500038@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 11:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.10500038 Posted: Thu Jan 10 11:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:28:17 EST References: <1879@burdvax.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:burdvax:-187900:uiucdcsb:10500038:000:536 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grass Jan 10 10:07:00 1985 I am a native speaker of English that grew up in central Massachusetts and Hartford, Conn. We sometimes said "close the lights". We also said "please shut the lights" or even "please shut out the lights" as well as the ever popular "please shut off the lights". The last was what was used most of the time, but "close" was used too. This isn't cantonese-english alone. I think it is pretty colloquial, though. - Judy Grass, University of Illinois - Urbana {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!grass grass%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa