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Old 08-06-2008, 07:39 AM   #25
DanaC
We have to go back, Kate!
 
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I have my share of regional error speaking...but I'm a firm believer that popular usage doesn't make it right.
Nothing wrong with dialect forms. 'Standard' English is just the dialect which won out as the 'correct' version, refined through latinate grammar.
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