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Thread #56479   Message #883546
Posted By: Amos
05-Feb-03 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: Songs of Appalachia
Subject: RE: Songs of Appalachia
Nicole -- Your stunning talent for excellent detail work is admirable, a true bright light. But this time I think it is hauling you further than you want to go. Either construction works perfectly well, and the omission of an addition "your" in front of 'simmons (which is the most popular colloquial form for them) is just poetic variance. If it was once "Your per...simmons", hell, a song just got folk-processed a little. It don't hurt none!

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