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Another Grammar question January 25, 2014 12:30 am FrankC

It annoys the hell out of me when people say ‘alls’ as in ‘alls I was trying to say’.

It wouldn’t bother me if it only came from the uneducated, but I have heard well educated persons say it. I don’t think it is regional. It seems to me that more than ten percent use this Malaprop.

  • Actually, - - - by bowser 2014-01-25 21:44:26
    • Actually,--- by ER 2014-01-26 18:10:30
      • Well, um, y'know, actually, when you think about it, for many people, sometimes, by bowser 2014-01-27 20:10:19
        • Verbal pauses, spacers... by FrankC 2014-01-26 21:28:04
          • "You know what I'm saying?" by ER 2014-01-26 22:00:48
            • I find that the word "stuff" can work in literature, upon occasion, to show complexity, as well as skirting the issue of a repeated lising of complicated -- stuff . . . by DanS 2014-01-28 07:34:41
              • nomesayin by FrankC 2014-01-26 22:25:03

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