>I guess that'd make it an Americanism only in the sense that it was never
>dropped in America, as opposed to an American innovation in the language.
Similarly, Cajun (Cadien, Akkadien) French has some odd forms usages which
aren't due to divergent changes in Cajun but are old French forms no longer
used in Parisian French.
>And I just realized that I used "I guess" above in this sense.
TAINTED! :-)
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