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Jeez...we have some tuppenny snobs on here....I'm shocked.
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17-04-2017, 05:46 PM
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Err, interesting. May I enquire: what does that mean?
It's Benny from Crossroads.
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17-04-2017, 05:47 PM
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Jeez...we have some tuppenny snobs on here....I'm shocked.
I am not a snob at all! I just wasn't dragged up!
If you can't speak properly, why bother to speak at all?
Just grunt!
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17-04-2017, 05:50 PM
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I am not a snob at all! I just wasn't dragged up!
If you can't speak properly, why bother to speak at all?
Just grunt!
Regional sayings are not a sign of being "dragged" up.

Many intellectuals don't use correct(what is correct) English due to dialect/accent etc.
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17-04-2017, 05:52 PM
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So what is the 'correct' way of saying it?
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Regional sayings are not a sign of being "dragged" up.

Many intellectuals don't use correct(what is correct) English due to dialect/accent etc.
'Regional'? That is no excuse for not speaking properly or using correct grammar!
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17-04-2017, 05:58 PM
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It fell off of the lorry

It fell off the lorry

Could be used to explain where the stolen goods came from.

The second could however be interpreted as a part of the lorry fell off, where the first is more correct if it is something the lorry was carrying.
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17-04-2017, 06:03 PM
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Oh no....you've not been watching a Sunday League game have you?

and the guy you were talking to said "did you see that?, it went in off of the post, Lad"
No, no I haven't. It's odd how every football pundit pronounces "lackadaisical" as "laxadaisical".

(that's everyone who uses the word - and yes, I do know why - apart from being thick)
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17-04-2017, 06:05 PM
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I'll bow out of this before i call people pompous prigs...ooops, I said it.
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It fell off of the lorry

It fell off the lorry

Could be used to explain where the stolen goods came from.

The second could however be interpreted as a part of the lorry fell off, where the first is more correct if it is something the lorry was carrying.
You do know that is cobblers, don't you?
 
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