Unpacking English, Bit by Bit
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Peter Wilkins
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Common (London, UK) talk now is to say e.g. I'm going McDonald's to mean I'm going TO McDonald's.Not a good language progression to lose the preposition, methinks, but this is the way youngsters around here express themselves.
Go + noun? Idiom or bad grammar?
Common (London, UK) talk now is to say e.g. I'm going McDonald's to mean I'm going TO McDonald's.
Not a good language progression to lose the preposition, methinks, but this is the way youngsters around here express themselves.