Re: What is this construction
| From: | Fergal McCullough <s.u.activities@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 10:21 |
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On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:02 +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Staving Shreyas Sampat:
> >Peter Bleackley wrote:
> >
> >>He liked languages, did Tolkien.
> >>
> >>It may be a particularly Northern English form. Does anyone know what
> >>such a construction is called?
> >
I'd like to point that I'm quite familiar with this sort of usage,
though I'm unlikely to produce it. It sounds quaint and old-fashioned
and english, all of which are synonyms. (I'm Australian, fwiw.)
--
Tristan.
The strange thing for me is that as an Irish person who has lived in the
North of England for 15 years this is a perfectly normal construction for me
but I can't for the life of me remember whether I would have considered it
normal before moved here
Fergal
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