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Pastimes : Common Errors in (American)English -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (81)	6/10/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 228

Regionalisms - I love'm. I spent a year in Pittsburgh where I first heard "yins", also noted above "yunz". For me the cardinal Pittsburghism was the Participle Swap. "Your car needs washed" where the canonical form would be "Your car needs washing". At first this grated on me like the sound of two blocks of styrofoam. But it grew on me, and now I will find myself using it. I believe a Southernism, and another rhythmic syncopator of ordinary grammar, is the fractured phrase "like to" employedd adverbially - im place of "almost". "It was so hot I like to died of the apoplexy."