http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/fishy-card-games/ A blog mostly about language Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/fishy-card-games/#comment-35128 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:22:54 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11729#comment-35128 Same here: ‘fish’ is a verb for me, since you ‘fish’ a card off the pile.

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/fishy-card-games/#comment-33778 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:05:00 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11729#comment-33778 Same here.

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/fishy-card-games/#comment-33692 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:49:05 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11729#comment-33692 What struck me as most interesting is the choice to analyze the “fish” of “go fish” as a noun (or, alternatively and implausibly, to treat “person” as a verb meaning “to hunt people”).

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