use of "my bad"
Scot LaFaive
slafaive at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 29 13:03:48 UTC 2009
Never liked it. Sometime in the '90s is my first recollection of its use.
Scot
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:
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> I first heard it when my son used it as a middle school student in the
> mid-1980s. still used, esp. by ballplayers, after an error or misplay.
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