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At 3:45 PM 9/12/96 -0400, Andrea A. Lunsford wrote: >Unless I misread, Jack ACTUALLY said "Look your porches," obviously some old >Pennsylvania Dutch invocation.....Andrea > Precisely correct, Andrea!! Many people would have spelled it "lock your porches," but I was being sensitive to local usages of marginal groups. Thanks for the clarification--it sometimes takes someone from the USA to clear these things up, doesn't it? Selzer [log in to unmask] Jack Selzer, Associate Professor of English Department of English Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0251