[Ads-l] Heard: dialogue

[W Brewer]

Just between you and I, this type of construction has always struck me as a
peculiarity of BritSpeak, ever since I ran across Barbara Strang's claim
that it could be considered standard, over there (A History of English,
London 1970). Crystal's History of English, CUP 1995 p.194, "Complaint 1".
     Yet, nary a soupçon of Black influence. (Such racism.)

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