BrE/AmE "go missing"

[Laurence Horn]

>It happens around here all the tine.
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>JL

Indeed, my inanimate objects go missing all the time.  The only
question is whether they stay there.

LH


>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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