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Old 27-12-2011, 15:40   #85
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Re: Linguistic tic's and crutches

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Originally Posted by mobertol View Post
Another thing I hate is when people drop their "aitches" -as in "I 'ate' im"...

Or the awful way some people say "an 'otel"... so contrived.
I would say that years ago the correct version of hotel etc among the upper class was without the h, and they would also be the ones to almost drop the g in ing. Perhaps this is how the folk in Downton Abbey should have spoken - huntin', shootin' and fishin'...

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