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...bananas." The root of the matter here seems to lie in a common grammatical perplexity, a perplexity over which many a person stumbles in common speech. How can you answer in one word, yes or no, to the question: " You have no bananas?" Often you will hear someone stammer "yes-no." The answer might reasonably be: " No, we have no bananas," with a direct logical opposite: " Yes, we have no bananas." But the contradiction in the phrase is ludicrous. A foreigner using it at all times and without distinction, it becomes grotesquely funny, the much more so because it catches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bananas | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...darling;" but I stammer here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENORITA MIA. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...have you stammer at a word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REMONSTRANCE. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

Cebes and Socrates had just begun a mirthful controversy in regard to the infinity of the absolute, when the Clown was observed to stammer and turn pale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENIAN HIPPODROME. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

More than once has a good honest American youth shaken hands with his classmates after the "Annuals," in a natural, unaffected way, and too often has three months in England or on the Continent produced wonderful changes. He returns with a studied stammer or a cockney drawl, and pronounces all his a's as broad alphas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN. | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

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