Query Details
| Query Subject: |
"A couple" or "A couple of"?
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| Author: | Fitzsimmons Tom | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
I seem to notice that many people in North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and
maybe Wisconsin, say ''a couple'' rather than ''a couple of'' when constructing a sentence like ''There are a couple of lines left to finish.'' This would be rendered: ''There are a couple lines left to finish.'' Tom Fitzsimmons. |
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| LL Issue: | 11.190 | |
| Date posted: | 29-Jan-2000 | |
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