Schedule (sk-/sh-?) etc. etc.

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:48 pm -0500 David Bergdahl
<bergdahl at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU> wrote:

> Tony Glaser wrote:
>
>> And another Americanism vs. Englishism - when did "I couldn't care
>> less" get turned into it's exact opposite "I could care less" even
>> when the speaker means the former. I have never heard the latter in
>> England, or the former in the US.

Rest assured that plenty of Americans say 'I couldn't care less', and most
(I hope all) American English teachers correct 'I could care less' when
they come across it.


M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
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