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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Sayings (Close the Lights)
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Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 14:55:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 14:55:42 1985
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>   I few years ago I had a girl friend who learned Cantonese and
> English as she was growing up; neither language was her first language.
> 
>  2) Close the lights (meaning -- turn off the lights).
> 
	Close the lights/Open the lights is a South Philadelphia-ism
for illiminating/darkening a room. 
	Therefore, it might not be a grammatical thing. It might just be
a regionalism. Ditto with the other examples (More 'enry 'iggins in Am.)

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				Craig Werner
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