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Thread #101289   Message #2041705
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-May-07 - 06:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language -American/English
Subject: RE: BS: Language -American/Engish
'John' has pretty well replaced other terms, at least in my hearing.

I have a 'loo' table made in England (a circular table on which loo and other card games are played). I think the game is obsolete everywhere now, so only antique furniture collectors know the term.

I think Poppagator is correct; occasionally the English usage is heard, but the speaker is a fan of UK whodunnits or has spent time in eastern Canada.
Sorry if I maligned New Jersey, PoppaGator. I knew a fellow who used 'going to home' regularly; he lived in New Jersey and worked in NY- he could have come from Philly. I have run across it in the novels by Constantine, which are set in Pennsylvania.