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Thread #124681   Message #2766562
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
15-Nov-09 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
I remember answering the 'phone when I was a mentally challenged kid (OK, I still am m c):

"Hello! Funeral Services- we undertake to take you under."

Ebbie, I deplore some of the usages, but we are stuck with them, once they become part of media-speak.
(the media also can shift pronunciations- e. g., covert has changed from kuv-ert to co-vert).