[lbo-talk] english question

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Sep 7 09:34:10 PDT 2005


Catherine Driscoll wrote:


>My father would have freaked over the use of it's for "it has". It's been
>terrific weather lately - is that the kind of thing you mean? Knowing he would
>freak means knowing that somewhere at some time, probably in England in the
>1950s, it was not considered correct. But, as he could sometimes be brought to
>recognise, the English language is a living changing thing.
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Oh, yes. I'm all for living English. It's just that it has been twenty years since I've taught English and I was wondering if things had changed officially.

Joanna


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