Judge Joe Brown speaketh:

Wilson Gray wilson.gray at RCN.COM
Tue May 31 20:36:17 UTC 2005


"Mano y mano" and "... went upside your head." A friend once argued
that the construction is actually "go _up beside_ one's head." "Up
beside" is not impossible, perhaps as an overcorrection, but I've never
heard it.

FWIW, when I was in grade school (pre-1950), I had a friend who
insisted, in all seriousness, that "blue jeans" was incorrect and that
the proper term was "eugenes."

-Wilson Gray



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