Missing PREP differing by dialect

[Wilson Gray]

WE:

"He shit/shat himself"

"He pissed himself"

vs. BE:

"He shitted _on_ himself"

"He pissed _on_ himself."

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
 -Sam'l Clemens

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org