“I’m surprised that no one mentioned ending a sentence with a preposition.
What are you looking for?
What was he thinking of?”
When we first moved to
(in Bill Murry’s voice from Ghostbusters II)
Southern California’s beautiful San Fernando Valley,
our new friends would say something like the following...
“Clean up your room already.”
When speaking to their sister.
Ending a sentence with “already” sounded so funny.
We were from Texas.
I think of ending a statement with “already” as a New York City thing. It’s kind of short for “Okay, okay. You convinced me already.”
Southern California has a few ex-New Yorkers, I’m sure.
Once heard an actor (can’t remember who or what play) use it incorrectly on purpose, putting it in the wrong place in the sentence. The way he said it showed he was trying to copy someone but not quite getting it right. Nobody laughed but me. Mostly tourists, I guess.