Is this a usage from across the Pond? It depends on what side of the Pond you learned English )) www.americancorpus.com abounds with similar samples. To quote a couple: 1. Once a bride who met with an accident was buried

So if you get down to an example like "me ... prescriptivist is allowed to simply say "that is incorrect English". A descriptivist could certainly say that it is not correct standard English. If it were a common usage in some

I've not heard that exact phrase, but a "shotgun" style ... the pellets will exit the backdoor without hitting any walls. That's the most accepted explanation, but I've also seen the claim that this usage of

In our last episode, (Email Removed), the lovely and talented Irwell broadcast on alt.usage.english: The BBC are relaying the Royal wedding from Denmark. The congregation are singing the hymn 'For those in peril on the sea'. Seems an odd

U¿ytkownik Pat Durkin napisa³: Did a miss a posting from you? I thought you used the word "beguest" in your first post. "is there a verb which would "to be hosted", "to be a guest"? " there should be

In article Sorry to disillusion you, but as a Tyke Born and ... longer speak like that :-(( I can understand it though. Yes, it's a contrived example. If one is trying to illustrate modern usage of ordinary people, it is not useful ... genuine

See: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/21texts.htm for a modern example Sorry to disillusion you, but as a Tyke Born and Bred, and living between Bradford and Halifax, we no longer speak like that :-(( I can understand it though. Yes, it's a

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How significant do you think those (or any) movies are ... must surely be a couple of orders of magnitude difference. You are correct, sir. For example, Happy Days reintroduced (AIW) "cool" and "nerd" into the speech of young