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From: bob@vaxwaller.UUCP (Bob Palin)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: sayings
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 14:19:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 14:19:43 1985
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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.