@JuliaHB1 And what's wrong with 'of'? Plenty of people have 'of' instead of 'have' in that construction.
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@olliesayeed and they'd all be wrong. -
@olliesayeed and you're a bloody linguistics student at Cambridge??!?!?!?!?!?! -
@JuliaHB1 Linguists describe language, not police it! -
@olliesayeed how can you intelligently describe language if you don't understand the basics, such as the meaning of words? -
@JuliaHB1 I believe it's you who's lacking in linguistic knowledge. The meanings of words change, especially in set phrases! -
@danninagh no, just because lots of people mistakenly think the shorted "have" sound is actually "of", it doesn't make them right. -
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@JuliaHB1@johnmcdonnellMP Snobbery of the worst kind Julia ! -
@svencjohn_steve there's nothing snobby about expecting people who want to run the country to be able to construct a meaningful sentence. -
@JuliaHB1@svencjohn_steve the sentence was completely meaningful.
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@JuliaHB1@johnmcdonnellMP Some working class roots is what we need in Westminster rather than the detached toffs running the country! -
@svencjohn_steve so you equate a lack of good grammar with being working class? Snobby much? -
@JuliaHB1 Working class folk are quite used to those kind of comments, language is a verbal expression as much as grammar.
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@JuliaHB1 After all this Hitler business he'll now have the grammar nazis on his back. - 1 more reply
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