The Dictionary of American Diction: Number 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  "I'd like to get a car simular to the one I have now."

 

  "My doctor said I should extrasize, so I joined the gym." 

 

  "Would you like salad or cold slaw?"

 

  "Her and her husband recently moved here from out of state." 

 

  "I'm the first person in my family that's ever went to college."

 

  "Rewrite them sentences.  I don't like the way them are wrote." (From a special education teacher - and, boy, was she special)

 

  "He needs to be accounted for his crime."  (A man being interviewed about Rep. Bill Janklow, (R-South Dakota))

 

  "He saves his vacation days like they're a six-pack in his pocket."

 

  "On further investigation, I found out that she died without making a (WILL) and all attempts to trace her next of kin was fruitless." (email from that pesky Nigerian banker)

 

  In the "Foreign" section at the local video store: "In Chinee with English subtitles."  (I believe the preferred nomenclature is Asian-American, Dude.)

 

 

 

 

 

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