Don't let's

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Tue Jan 15 11:47:37 UTC 2008


I'm American and I consider it ungrammatical. BB

LanDi Liu wrote:
> Are there Americans who consider this construction to be grammatical in
> their dialect?  British/Australians who don't?
>
> I'm trying to verify whether "don't let's..." is more or less exclusively
> British.
>
> Randy Alexander
> Jilin City, China
>
>

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