HAVE/BE

[Enrique Figueroa E.]

Thanx, but I can't: I've been practically forbidden to bombard Funknet
with short messages and have no extensive message to send for the moment...
So, I'll have to lurk, as so many others do! Max
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997 Carl.Mills at UC.EDU wrote:

> In his recent post, Max mentioned the variants
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> >HAVE, as against the American usage?
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> >("Do you have a pe ncil? VS Have you a pencil?)
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> In my nonstandard (one of the "me and John" dialects) dialect we say
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>      Do you got a pencil?
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> Keep on provoking.
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>
> Carl
>