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Re: preposition

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Sunday, March 18, 2001, 3:52
At 3/17/01 01:54 PM +1100, you wrote:
>>What store did you buy that at? > >You'd say that? I would've said 'Where did you buy that?' (or 'Where ja >buy that?') > >> >>And even in cases where the preposition is not strictly necessarily, >>like: >> >>Where'd you go to? >>Where do you live at? >This just sound 'broken and wrong'.
The all sound perfectly natural to me. I know many peole (including myself) who say these things regularly. Marcus Smith "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." -- Thomas Huxley

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