Now I don't want to be seen as so much a south-of-the-border type that Patrick will come cutting me up too!! But I am, of course, quite an expert on obscure, not to say imaginary, regional dialects..... Andrea At 04:01 PM 9/12/96 -0400, you wrote: >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 > >