Re: preposition

I was born in Western Pennsylvania. We would never bat an eye at such
constructions. We even said things such as "Where you at?" and were well
understood.
Scott

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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Tristan McLeay
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 7:55 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: preposition
>
>
> > 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'.
>
> Tristan Alexander McLeay
>
>
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