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#285047 - 06/08/2006 15:54
Re: English vs American
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 20/05/1999
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Another shibboleth to do with missing words is missing prepositions in US English: I've mainly seen this in cnn.com headlines, but people do it in speech too: "Let's do this Tuesday" rather than "Let's do this on Tuesday".
I always have to read such sentences at least twice. I often seem to consider the final word to be an adverb or noun and wonder exactly how people manage to "run Tuesday" or "announce Thursday".
Mike.
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