Re: Grammar gurus: I have a question

Subject: Re: Grammar gurus: I have a question
From: "Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Sandy Harris" <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:11:50 -0400

They may find something like that acceptable for casual conversation
but would they use it in writing?

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Milan Davidovic
http://altmilan.blogspot.com


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm Canadian, and at
> one point was working for a British organisation. I was amazed when
> a colleague said "Fred called. He suggested that you rang him back."
>
> To me, that is no more grammatical than "I seen George yesterday."
> It /must/ have "ring"! However, she was educated, working as an
> Englsh teacher. I asked various Brit colleagues; quite a few found
> "rang" acceptable there.
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