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To: Between the Lines

I had no idea that the phrase "All o' youse" was of Greek origin.

Fascinating.


2 posted on 04/02/2007 12:20:32 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." ~ Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Tax-chick

It's only used in southern parts of Greece. :)


3 posted on 04/02/2007 12:44:32 PM PDT by Grig
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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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