On 01/31/2013 07:12 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 01/31/2013 10:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Another irritating colloquial "figure of speech" is the use of the
word "and" in place of the word "to" in association with the word "try".
Example, I will try and work that out.
Is the speaker going to try that out, or is the speaker going to work
that out, or is the speaker planning on both? What I assume is the
speaker meant that the speaker will try to work that out.
Are you perhaps familiar with the word "idiom?"
--doug
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