Re: was did
- From: John Swindle <jcswindle@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:39:28 -1000
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:32:12 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 17, 1:17 am, John Swindle <jcswin...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
. . .
I grew up in North America and still live in the United States
(although not in North America), and I can tell you how to construct
those, or how I do it anyway. Write an e-mail message. Use a "was"
construction. Go back and change it to a "did" construction, but
forget to delete the "was." Et voila. (Ett VOY-la.) I can't imagine
that those are anything but typos. -
Did you "grow up in NA" before 1980?
You claim to live in Hawai`i and that the construction is not used
there?
Right on both counts! So far as I know.
It's hard to say that a construction is not used, but "was did" is
certainly unfamiliar. I suspect that the examples represent careless
writing or editing and that the writers would not use it in their own
speech.
You have however heard it widely, and if others have heard it too then
I'm obviously mistaken.
Have others heard it too?
.
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