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Re: dialect - lig or lie


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Posted by Adam Quinan on April 21, 2016 at 02:18:24 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: dialect - lig or lie posted by Alan Hakim on April 21, 2016 at 23:18:04:

"The final words of the storm scene in King Lear are "Lurk, lurk." I always suspected AR had picked up his usage there. "

That sounds very plausible to me, just the sort of catchphrase that a child or family might pick up on and use without realising that the more common usage is less action based and more long term skulking.



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