Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site vaxwaller.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!varian!vaxwaller!bob From: bob@vaxwaller.UUCP (Bob Palin) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: sayings Message-ID: <193@vaxwaller.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 14:19:43 EST Article-I.D.: vaxwalle.193 Posted: Fri Jan 18 14:19:43 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:34:39 EST Distribution: net Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 7 The saying 'shut off/out the lights' is in common usage in England so it is almost certainly not derived from any Chinese concept. I'm often surprised to hear of colloquial English usage in New England which is the same as usage in old England, very little seems to have made it to California. Bob Palin, formerly of Luton, Beds., now Pittsburg, Ca.