cybercat wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
> news:slrnfg6596.4rb.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
>> cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote
>>>>
>>>> To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not even.
>>>
>>>:)
>>>
>>> Have you lived in the south?
>>
>> No, but I've sure never heard that from mainstream US English speakers
>> where I *have* lived. But that probably just means that it's country,
>> even though not necessarily southern.
>
> "Ever so often" might be "missing front teeth living in the mountains of
> Arkansas," but it's surely not "southern."

You just stereotyped Arkansans.

> You sharks just lovvvvve to stereotype, don't you?

You just stereotyped sharks.


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