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I'm sure the song goes "off-a you " - or maybe it'd a different song!
"off" is the most used, but from IS possible -it has a slightly quaint or achaic ring to it, though.
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a bit like, guys, we dont use them much in the UK - or maybe use them to sound a bit playful
- tho Buddy has taken on a life in terms of care for people with AIDS - their volunteers/ supporters are often called Buddies, presumably following an American model?
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it is still more used in the US thanthe UK -
in the UK, if you address a crowd as "you guys", people are likely to think you are being playful with language - it doesn't sound serious at all to most of us!
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re plead - pled / pleaded
in the on-line dics I looked at they are both possible, tho is seems the pled option is more US than UK.
the past for bleed is always bled,
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yup - what makes you think it is not OK?
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the first is right - for the reason that you suggest.
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you can HAVE a lot of things, of which food is only one, you can have a pie or a car and one would mean you ATE the pie, but the other would just mean that you possess or own the car
the use of eat is narrower - usually related to food, you dont ususally eat a car ..
though sometimes eat is...
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more or less - they can both be used in the context of a "lie" or fiction
but you cant really say "make it up" in the same way you would talk about inventing something totally new - like a new cooker or pc...
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you can tell it is not "good" style as your readers have to ponder out the meaning of it - in general that is a clue
re-write so that the meaning is more obvious!
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