Query: "on accident"

[Barnhart]

Check the archives.  I believe it was a thread a few years ago.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com


American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Sunday, July 24, 2005
at 9:32 PM -0500 wrote:
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>Poster:       "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
>Subject:      Query: "on accident"
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>Today I was asked about the phrase "on accident" by a mother whose three
>grown children (in their twenties)  use it rather than "by accident."  Is
>this a regionalism? Is it a feature of the younger generation?
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>Gerald Cohen