... I learn that I have been using the wrong form of an idiom since childhood. I'm guessing that my mostly-southern family says "all of the sudden" for the same reason that we use "y'all" as second person plural. Either way, it's a very peculiar idiom, since "sudden" is not usually a noun.
mneme_forgets pointed out my error. Being a stubborn little wench, I had to go and research the matter to assure myself that she was correct.
I found an amusing blog entry on the subject which I'm preserving for future reference. I like the way this person writes.
Note to self: sooner or later, I need to hammer out my use of "which" and "that" once and for all, and decide whether I'm going to follow MLA or APA format for quoted phrase + comma/period.
mneme_forgets pointed out my error. Being a stubborn little wench, I had to go and research the matter to assure myself that she was correct.I found an amusing blog entry on the subject which I'm preserving for future reference. I like the way this person writes.
Note to self: sooner or later, I need to hammer out my use of "which" and "that" once and for all, and decide whether I'm going to follow MLA or APA format for quoted phrase + comma/period.
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I learned somethin'. :) Yes, both ways appear in print, but the version I knew seems to be slang, not standard.
I have guilt issues about English on behalf of all my non-native-English-speaker online friends (
Yes, I know. English is crazy. And yet knowing it doesn't make it easier to learn other language unfortunately. Heh.