Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay

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By Richard Lederer and Richard Dowis

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Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay
ISleeping Dogs and Other Ponderables 
 
"I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady," says the irrepressible Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Perhaps Miss Doolittle speaks for many who just don't want to bother with grammar but are quite eager to talk "like a lady"--or a gentleman. Or, for that matter, like a judge, a physician, or a corporate executive.

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