Re: Making pictures

On 9/27/07, Michael Potter <mhpotter@...> wrote:
> Chattanooga, TN, must be in the real South, then, because I still hear
> this phrase all the time. :p
I wasn't casting aspersions, for the record.  Just acknowledging that
what I hear around here in Atlanta is vastly filtered compared to most
of the South; nobody here is from here, as the joke goes.  So I am
therefore somewhat unreliable as eyes and ears on the ground when it
comes to questions of Southern/Southron usage.

> We don't always use "have made" in reference to professionals, though. I
> might say that I "had a picture made" with some of my cousins last year,
> if only because all six of us were in the picture, standing as in a
> class portrait.
Interesting distinction.  Thanks!

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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