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Old 6th Sep 2019, 23:29
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Originally Posted by India Four Two

* I always wondered about the vocative case. I can't image anyone addressing a speech to a table, except perhaps Keats.
Given that every year people address a speech to the haggis, I can imagine this. Indeed, at the end of such a haggis-speech occasion, perhaps something like "O table, why are you looming over me like that?"
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