HAVE/BE

Carl.Mills at UC.EDU Carl.Mills at UC.EDU
Mon Apr 21 14:17:01 UTC 1997


In his recent post, Max mentioned the variants

>HAVE, as against the American usage?

>("Do you have a pe ncil? VS Have you a pencil?)

In my nonstandard (one of the "me and John" dialects) dialect we say

     Do you got a pencil?

Keep on provoking.


Carl



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