abide = 'abate'

[Victor Steinbok]

 From my experience, Dutch English speakers, although very fluent,
almost have a dialect of their own. There is considerable structural
transfer that makes some phraseology ...er... peculiar. And choice of
words is often slightly off, although usually understandable. And, of
course, speech cadence is very noticeable (which does not appear in
print, oddly enough ;-) ). All of this is merely observational, so
there's plenty of room for disagreement. But I, for one, am not
surprised at the alternative wording.

     VS-)

On 2/20/2012 8:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> But "non-native" in this case almost doesn't count: she's obviously
> very fluent in English. She wrote a dissertation in English at
> Utrecht.
>
> Now, if it were question of weird syntax, that would be different.
>
> (Unless it were weird enough to be funny.)
>
> JL

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