Don't let's

[Anita Puckett]

Possible in southeastern Kentucky as in "Don't let's tell on him."


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>I'm American and I consider it ungrammatical. BB
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>LanDi Liu wrote:
>>  Are there Americans who consider this construction to be grammatical in
>>  their dialect?  British/Australians who don't?
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>>  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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