Heard on "1000 Ways to Die":

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> The narrator:
>
> "If Diane could have responded to her last message, it would have
> _went_ something like this…"
>
> Apparently, when this episode was being prepared, no one noticed
> anything at all strange about the (mis)use of "went."
>
> Of course, as far as the semantics, it matters not.

AmE PST for PSP has been voluminously commented on, from Mencken on (and surely before).

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