Background: a posting of mine (“An early “is is”? Probably not”) on the 27th, looking at a 1964 quote (from published fiction) submitted by Jon Lighter to ADS-L: (1) “The thing of it is, Waldron said… “is that this order was set up for you personally.” (1) is a quotation from the writer that seems to have … Continue reading More on early “is is”