BE/BECOME//HAVE ( RE: BEES)

[Enrique Figueroa E.]

Looking back in anger...
"Be good and, if you do, Granny'll buy an ice-cream"

BE=BECOME (any comments on that?)

HAVE:
What ab out the prescriptive British reusal to use DO as a proverb for
HAVE, as against the American usage?
("Do you have a pe ncil? VS Have you a pencil?)

BE/HAVE:
How about comparing all the ink that has flowed (and flown?) on BE-DO
with the status quo of HAVE (as, say, for one, an auxiliary verb ~ a
modal in HAVE TO, etc.)?

Just provoking!

Max