[lit-ideas] Re: Grammar Girl link
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:40:25 -0000
One could also remember Lay, lady, lay, lay
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From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Grammar Girl link
> > Lay, lie, laid, lain... what a mess! Can anyone here come up
with a
> > memonic? yrs,
>
> A memonic? Where is Spelling Girl when you need her? As for
lie, lay,
> etc., one could think of As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) and Lie Down
in
> Darkness (William Styron)? What?--can't remember Faulkner and
Styron?
> Just remember Shakespeare for Faulkner, and Sir Thomas Browne
for
> Styron, and if you can't remember...hell, never mind.
>
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