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To: Yardstick

I’m English - North Yorkshire WAS where I was raised (nearly slipped!). There are all sorts of odd (or very odd) ways of saying things there, really old and harking back to Old Saxon and Viking, and your mind just accepts them. The stuff you learn as a kid never really goes away.

Have you ate, instead of have you eaten, for example.

I’m pretty scrupulous about using spell check, but if that red line isn’t there, just don’t notice sometimes.


11 posted on 07/31/2014 5:04:37 PM PDT by EC1
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To: EC1

Oh, okay, English. Now it’s all making sense. You guys do have see some funky archaic-isms. Sometimes English dialect quirks aren’t so much wrong as just a few centuries out of date.


13 posted on 07/31/2014 5:13:12 PM PDT by Yardstick
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