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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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BY GAR

0 'My knowledge of Canuck French derives from motion pictures usually with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, and it consists largely of "BY GAR". It's odd but I didn't hear a single one of the potato pickers say "By gar", and they MUST HAVE SEEN THE PICTURES AND KNOWN WHAT IS RIGHT'. I think that here, at the end of the paragraph, Steinbeck is making a ironical joke, isn't?, 02br
00but I would like to know the meaning of this "by gar".02br
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00 Thanks, Jo. 0-
  

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0 I'm not familiar with it, but it's in the dictionary:02br
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01b00gar02b02br
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00 Pronunciation: 00'gär02br
00 Function: 01i00interjection02br
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02i00 Etymology: 01font00euphemism for 01i00***02i
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0 01i00By gar02i00 = By ***. 02br
00 This expression is quite old, by the way, as it is used frequently in Shakespeare's 01i00The Merry Wives of Windsor02i00.02br
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01i00must have seen the pictures ...02i02br
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00Yes. By suggesting a highly implausible explanation for what he
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Just heard an old man o in the old Western Big Valley say "old gar". He wasn't going to give up his land he worked so hard for "by gar".. like by ***. .by gosh
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