go missing

[Mark Mandel]

Do they also rage against "The eggs have gone bad" and "The bread has gone
stale" ... and for that matter, "My brother got into rough company and went
bad"?

m a m

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> it's astonishing how much passion this idiom raises in americans.
> we've seen Robert Hartwell Fiske's contempt for it.  it was Grammar
> Girl's Pet Peeve of 2008 --
> ...

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