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Re: Regional quirks?

2022-12-18T17:41:15-05:00

Don't recall offhand, but I've read and heard it more in the last 2 or 3 years than earlier. If I'm not mistaken it has been present in European , perhaps British literature and speech predominantly.

Statistics: Posted by Ronald Dukarski — Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:41 pm

Re: Regional quirks?

2022-12-17T00:41:57-05:00

Different to is one I've never seen what author(s) use it?

Statistics: Posted by Hillbilly — Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:41 am

Re: Regional quirks?

2022-12-15T21:07:55-05:00

My contribution to regional quirks: different than, different from, different to. The first two I get different to ? Just doesn't sit right.

Statistics: Posted by Ronald Dukarski — Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:07 pm

Regional quirks?

2022-12-17T00:38:25-05:00

I'm curious if anyone else has noticed language that seems a bit "off" (not wrong but just different) shared between multiple authors and if we can connect those to geographic or generation gaps.
I'll start with one I asked our resident writer about "on accident" now where and when I come from it's "by accident and on purpose" so "on accident" seems weird and unwieldy but I know more then a couple writers that use it (rj ross, shirtaloon ...). So now I'm wondering what other little quirks are out there that I've missed

Statistics: Posted by Hillbilly — Tue Dec 13, 2022 11:16 pm