Comments on: The Snooks, 5 and 6 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/ Where our past is never very long ago Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-222223 Carol Tue, 08 May 2012 18:55:32 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-222223 Sorry about having gotten you a headache, Alison. But that’s a big one solved now. (Hmmm, spell check doesn’t mind “gotten”.)

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-222199 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 08 May 2012 16:06:48 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-222199 My hypothesis: Olive Burt had an overly-nice grammar teacher in the seventh grade.

Or else the King of Siam was right: “‘Tis a puzzlement.”

]]> By: Alison http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-222198 Alison Tue, 08 May 2012 16:01:59 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-222198 For anybody still interested, the double form “have got” is listed in “Practical English usage” as a correct expression e.g. “Have you got a headache?” (which I had got by the time I’d combed the relevant section of the library…

]]> By: lindberg http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220486 lindberg Thu, 03 May 2012 18:46:07 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220486 Can I just say that I really enjoyed “case is” rhymed with “places”?

(And it kind of reminds me of Steve Miller…)

]]> By: Alison http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220447 Alison Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:13 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220447 I work in a college that teaches ESOL courses, so I’ll check when I’m back at work next week (it is that great British tradition this weekend, the Bank Holiday).

]]> By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220417 Carol Thu, 03 May 2012 12:45:27 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220417 That textbook was published in England. In the student dialogues, they made fun of American accents. The next line was “Is that the only book you have got?” So, I thought that “have got” was British English. Anyone know how they teach it there now?

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220399 Ardis E. Parshall Thu, 03 May 2012 10:20:44 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220399 He hadn’t ought to do that, Carol. This here is good advice.

(I have a nagging memory from somewhere that “have” vs. “have got” is English vs. American, that Americans have preserved an archaic verbal form acceptable in the 17th century but since passed out of use in standard English English. If that memory is right, and I’m not absolutely certain it is, it would account for the difference of advice between grammarians, and puts Sister Burt in the old-style camp of those who defer to the Queen’s English as somehow being the standard for, well, the Queen’s English.)

]]> By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220365 Carol Thu, 03 May 2012 04:23:22 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220365 According to my English as a second language textbook, “I have got” is proper. As in, “Have you got a book?” “Yes, I have got an old one.”

My cousin, he takes and says that all the time.

]]> By: Amy T http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220302 Amy T Wed, 02 May 2012 21:44:36 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220302 Oh, how sweet is that! Personalized historical Mormon poetry for Keepa’s grammarian.

(I had to go back to see verses 3 and 4, since I somehow missed those.)

(And that’s comment 3. : )

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/05/02/the-snooks-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-220301 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 02 May 2012 21:29:40 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14870#comment-220301 You didn’t jump on me for my affect/effect error. And I had to do SOMEthing to get a comment today.

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