The phrase in question - "I forgot my glasses at home" - is the subject of a youtube video for ESL students, is presented as 'wrong', and apparently is marked as such on an ESL exam (whether a specifically UK exam or international, I don't know). Now, I'm not interested in arguing about it here, as the matter is being thoroughly dissected in the youtube comments, but I would like to conduct a straw poll, as there are posters on both sides of the pond who claim never to have even heard this usage - which, frankly, I find hard to believe, certainly in the case of the Americans. So, here's the question: is this a usage you are familiar with (whatever you think of it)?
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