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To: Tax-chick; Grig

“I had no idea that the phrase “All o’ youse” was of Greek origin.

Fascinating.”

Yeah, as in “Taki got butted in the kolos by the goat. All o’ youse get in the karo and take him to the ‘spitali!”

It’s a Peloponnesian thing.


168 posted on 04/04/2007 4:10:03 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Thank you for the cultural milieu. The Greek thing is still pretty alien to me.


171 posted on 04/04/2007 4:24:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever He tells you.' ")
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