Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Sayings (Close the Lights) Message-ID: <1080@aecom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 14:55:42 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1080 Posted: Sat Jan 5 14:55:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:44:30 EST References: <1879@burdvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 14 > 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.) -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!