BrE/AmE "go missing"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It happens around here all the tine.

JL

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 12/20/2009 09:42 AM, Lynne Murphy wrote:
> >BrE to AmE import:  go missing
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> I saw in a newspaper in the last couple of days an inanimate object
> go missing -- probably a document or such-like records, but
> unfortunately I didn't record it.
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> Joel
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