The Dec. 5, 2005 issue of The New Yorker contains a short story by Alice Munro titled “Wenlock Edge.”
On page 82, she writes: “They didn’t sleep hardly at all.”
I can’t hardly believe my eyes :-(.
(Especially since hardly is used correctly four times elsewhere in the text.)
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January 9th, 2006 at Jan 09, 06 | 5:04 pm
Can you explain that a bit (i’m not english language origin raised whatever :-)