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Ardith Hinton | alexander koryagin | English |
March 2, 2018 6:00 PM * |
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Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to Pietro Bisanti:
PB> Is there anybody who can help me out with the English tongue?
PB> Thanks!
ak> Did you put "tongue" instead of "language" on purpose?
ak> I doubt that a man who speaks "help out" hasn't heard about
ak> the English language.
I used "language" as the more common alternative, but my GAGE CANADIAN
DICTIONARY equates "tongue" and "language" in definition #5.
Another example of this usage is the scene from MY FAIR LADY (based on
Shaw's PYGMALION) in which Henry Higgins says about Eliza & her Cockney
accent:
... She should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
OTOH I was taught to say "hanged" with reference to a human being... [chuckle].
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)
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