Re: noun forms of verbs
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2001, 0:26 |
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > Don't yall have cheap eats where you're from?
>
> Nope. I've heard "eat" used that way before, but in a context that lead
> me to think it was an archaism. Is it used that way currently in some
> dialects?
It certainly seems that way. I recognise it as an Americanism.
Tristan
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