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To: PeteePie
When we started using:
Gone missing
Going to University or hospital instead of the University or the hospital.
Spot on.

I want to start using "Too right! and Bloody this or that."

38 posted on 09/08/2014 7:06:12 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
>> Going to University <<

Spoken no doubt by Americans who want to sound "British." On the other hand, it's perfectly OK in the USA to say something like, My son is going to college.

In other words, consistency and logic aren't always required in idiomatic English.

Well then, whatever!!!

63 posted on 09/08/2014 7:23:18 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: TangoLimaSierra

You beat me to it! What’s up with the Britspeak? Also, “take a decision” instead of “make a decision.”


81 posted on 09/08/2014 7:32:29 AM PDT by Wage Slave
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