[LINK] RFC: Web 2.0

[Jan Whitaker]

At 04:09 PM 25/11/2006, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>Hardly!
>
>Google for this: "didn't used to" canadian
>as but one example of extra-Strine usage.
>
>Well, maybe they didn't used to use didn't used to but now they're used to it
>in Canada.

Love it, Rick!

>Isn't the construction 'didn't used to' specifically Strine?

Good question. I don't know the differences any more, so I guess 
saturation has been reached. The one usage I know that has crept in 
is 'bit', as in a 'bit of this' or 'just a bit of...'. I've also 
heard quite a few Australianisms in US TV now. The main one being 'no worries'!

>If so, Jan, congrats, that's even better than a nationalisation 
>ceremony!  (Or should that be 'neutralisation' ceremony?).

and I voted for the first time today in a real election. Councils 
don't count in my mind. Took all of 2 minutes! Sort of anticlimactic.

Jan


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