On Jul 22, 2007, at 5:39 PM, keith helgesen wrote:
What about eleven times "had"? I remember this from high school-
(Yes- 60
years ago!)
Two boys, John and James wrote an essay;
John, where James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. "Had had" had
had the
teachers approval.
Bizarre language we use, eh?
BTW- I, not being from US and therefore not really familiar with
the verb
'to buffalo' meaning (I think!) to thwart, found the buffalo
sentence very
odd.
I'm Canadian born and bred, and I always understood "to buffalo" was
to bully, or insist strongly on something. As in, "the boss wouldn't
shut up at the meeting, he just kept buffaloing about expense
reports." Must be a North American thing, since we are the ones who
have (had) the buffalo. Although I haven't seen one up close since
1976, the US bison-tennial.
(hee, hee!)
Christopher
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