• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    I see this all over and it always goes without comment, so I’m curious; is “and” used instead of “an” in a dialect I’m unaware of? Kinda like how “anymore” has a slightly different usage (I think in the southern us)

      • VindictiveJudge
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        121 year ago

        “which fills out and empty space”

        My guess is that the and there is a typo.

        • Nora
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          21 year ago

          ohhhh i did spend a minute trying to figure out what that meant lol

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Yes, in my neck of the woods it’s always used in a negative statement (we don’t go there anymore, can’t anymore, etc) but some places use it in positive statements kinda like “nowadays” (we go there anymore). Trips me up a bit whenever I encounter it.

        Here’s an article about it

        • @wolfpack86
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          41 year ago

          That is super weird. I haven’t ever encountered it. And thanks for the sauce.

          I’ll be on the lookout anymore.

          (That just feels wrong to write!)

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m not sure about “anymore”—other than moving it to the start of the sentence—but I have noticed that “whenever” seems to have become fully interchangeable with “when” for some southerners.

    • @dtxer
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      11 year ago

      Possible autocorrecr