Reverse English

[Benjamin Barrett]

I suspect "reverse" means that "be bought on" means the same as "be sold on."

I also suspect that this is not BrE usage, but something generally found in AmE as well. See http://crazycrabla.com/index.php?mid=Crazy_Crab_LA_Gallery&page=116&sort_index=blamed_count&order_type=desc&document_srl=32759, which is a crab restaurant in LA. That's no guarantee that the writer is not British, though.

I looked at several other Googits, but they were all English, Australian or unknown.

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Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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On May 1, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> From a blog written in Britspeak:
>
> "I am completely _bought_ on the Peterson System."
>

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