Don't let's

[Grant Barrett]

Sure, it's grammatical, but just old-fashioned.

There's a They Might Be Giants song, "Don't let's start."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQnZZ-Wmao

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Dictionary
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

On Jan 15, 2008, at 06:27, 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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