Anyone Else Had This
Feb 6th 2005, 1:08 am
#46
Not here much
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Highland Park, NJ
Posts: 2,452
Re: Anyone Else Had This
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
Wow. Now that's a new one on me. But, the US is a big and diversified place and I'm just glad I never came across that on the West Coast while growing up.
Feb 6th 2005, 12:40 pm
#47
Joined: Dec 2001
Location: Dixie, ex UK
Posts: 52,448
Re: Anyone Else Had This
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Maybe they weren't a Yank? The fact that it was spelt correctly makes me very suspicious...
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
....., so they would of .....
Feb 6th 2005, 3:13 pm
#48
Septicity
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 23,762
Re: Anyone Else Had This
Originally Posted by Pulaski
Probably not British either!
Well spotted! A common mistake! My foreign-born and educated wife would scream: "How could you possibly follow a modal auxiliary with a preposition?� But when she does this, they just look at her blankly.
Feb 6th 2005, 3:24 pm
#49
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 22,105
Re: Anyone Else Had This
Originally Posted by neil
I would imagine it might be a regional thing (she grew up in Illinois just outside Chicago, but I'm not sure what significance there would be in that). She said it was drilled into them how bad we were. I must have won her over somehow which is a good thing.
Feb 6th 2005, 6:33 pm
#50
You Are All Diseased
Joined: Feb 2004
Location: Farnham, UK
Posts: 4,511
Re: Anyone Else Had This
Originally Posted by Tone
Got home from work last night to find "Go back to your own country" scrawled on my front door !!
Feckwit didn't even have the balls to sign it
Feckwit didn't even have the balls to sign it
