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To: antidisestablishment

That used to drive me bonkers. Along with What time it be?”, “Borrow me some money.”(Usually a “case” quarter”.)and “Let me hold it.” And I learned early on not to ask for a piece of paper. Nope, it’s a sheet of paper unless you want a tiny torn off corner.


48 posted on 05/12/2018 1:34:22 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

I had never heard “borrow me something” until I moved to the Midwest. It drove me nuts—even heard it from educated professionals and always thought they should have asked for a refund!


59 posted on 05/12/2018 1:52:09 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: lastchance

How about...

Do you have two pencils???


64 posted on 05/12/2018 1:55:53 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: lastchance

Are you talking about ebonics? Or something else, as I don’t recognize all those phrases.

You apparently have not been to mid/west PA and OH.

There is a whole weird grammar thing going on there that is not getting the attention it deserves (I say this as native MD who never knew about these “colloquilisms” until much later in life). And the bad thing is they are starting to transfer it to writing, not just speaking badly. I can spot a PA/OH person on FR half the time because they write this odd grammar. Not pronunciation - grammar.


75 posted on 05/12/2018 2:11:40 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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