The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83240   Message #1801683
Posted By: Les from Hull
04-Aug-06 - 03:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pet peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
'With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand' Meredith Willson 1957

Or is it just after 111 (however you say it) that we can drop the and. And who says you can't end a sentence with and. It seems that this is a difference in usage of either side of the Atlantic.

And the only time I remember hearing 'off of' was from Sir Michael Jagger, speaking meteriologically. But his American was always far better than his English!

Of course many people's pet peeve is a smartarse (note spelling!)