[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Oliver Mason]

I recently noticed the use of 'plenty' as an adverb, as in "our troops
are plenty brave" (GWB).  Don't know if that is general American E or
just a Bushism.

Oliver


On 03/11/06, Mark P. Line <mark at polymathix.com> wrote:
> Harold Somers wrote:
> > I'd be
> > moderately interested to see what other examples corpora listers come up
> > with (though no doubt they will also remind me that there are
> > significant differences in usage between American dialects, not to
> > mention Canadian etc)
> >
> > To give just one example of each:
> >
> > Lift vs elevator
> > Have you got vs do you have
> > Half four vs 4:30
>
> 'we could do' vs 'we could'
>
>
> -- Mark
>
> Mark P. Line
> Polymathix
> San Antonio, TX
>
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