Language Question

Pink, does this extend to constructions with an explicit direct object, such as "I wrote him a letter" vs "I wrote to him a letter", the latter being very odd to my ears.
On the second matter, the merger of the -ly adverb with the adjective, I think you will find that this is a tendency for many varieties of English across many adverb/adjective pairs. Even where the adverb and adjective are different lexical items, there is confusion. Consider, 1) I spanked her well 2)I spanked her good 3) ??I spanked her well and proper 4) I spanked her good and proper.

CS. As a Seattlite that goes to BC often I am more aware of the differences than most. But I emphatically agree with Guy. Speak and write as a Canadian and damn the eyes of anyone who objects! Oh Canada...
Grin!


PS: oh yea. And have Fun!

In the classic erotic novel "Fanny Hill" the double entendre was definitely intended. Even "Hill" was probably intended to refer to the mons veneris.

The latter is very odd to my ears too lol. I wrote him a letter sounds fine, or I wrote a letter to him, in the right context.

The other one that is used by some in the US is the 'in back'... as in I lowered her pants in back... I am now more used to seeing it but it never fail to break my concentration as a stumble over it awkwardly...

It is all a learning curve and all good fun

Here in South Africa we also tend to follow the British way of spelling words such as colour and organise
We do though have a number of words which are purely South African, borrowing from the various native African languages such as Zulu and those of the immigrants. Afrikaans which developed from Dutch often features in South African English as well as languages such as Malay and Portuguese.
In South African English a hangover is a babbelas, a barbeque is a braai, an idiot is a mampara and there are hundreds of other examples.
Anybody who is interested can find a whole list of South African idioms here:
http://www.southafrica.info/travel/advice/saenglish.htm

Curves can be a good thing - particularly those 'in back.'

Hi Hotspur
Seth Efricans also have a peculiar liking for Biltong.
A friend of mine raved about it and illegally imported some.
I couldn't wait to taste this delicacy- When I did I found it was revolting and I just couldn't eat it.
I was also told of a friend of theirs who was fined thousands of Australian dollars trying to smuggle some in for him and his mates!

My digression for the day!

Jimi

I opened up the sign-in page for Yahoo Mail today and read the following boast:
"Who's got the most popular email in the country? You do."

I do got?