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From: grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Sayings
Message-ID: <10500038@uiucdcsb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 11:07:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 11:07:00 1985
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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
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