Where's it to?

[Mouse]

Excellent. Thank you, both. I've gone for Ursa's risen. And I'll change the others. Ta!

 

[FeedMeTV]

I have nothing grammatical to add as, as usual, I have come in at the end of a conversation but all the meerkats made me laugh! Where had they gotten to?! Hehe! Happy editing, Mouse

 

[TheDustyZebra]

...

Ok, it won't let me quote that last series in which you are quoting yourself. But anyway, I would use all of those, except the "whilst" which is distinctly not American. As opposed to un-American, which would be something else entirely.

My use does not necessarily recommend itself to you as proper, as I have been accused of various dialects myself.

 

[Mouse]

I have nothing grammatical to add as, as usual, I have come in at the end of a conversation but all the meerkats made me laugh! Where had they gotten to?! Hehe! Happy editing, Mouse

Ta.

Ok, it won't let me quote that last series in which you are quoting yourself. But anyway, I would use all of those, except the "whilst" which is distinctly not American. As opposed to un-American, which would be something else entirely.

My use does not necessarily recommend itself to you as proper, as I have been accused of various dialects myself.

I think I'll probably change the 'whilst' to while anyway. Somewhere along the line I stopped using it and switched to while, so I should probably make sure I'm consistent!

 

[Mouse]

Again, I'm resurrecting an old thread...

So apparently not only do I write with an accent, I also text with a, and I quote, 'Somerset twang.'

All because I text someone to say that if I didn't go out with the dog at a certain time of day he'd 'start on.' I was unaware that 'starting on' wasn't what those who speak the Queen's English would say. Heh heh.

Now I have to go check my work for that!

 

[Hex]

Start on what?

(one of my stories had a typo when I got the ARC and I suggested they replaced the word with 'got'. The editor wrote back saying he'd replace it with 'gotten' because 'that was more grammatically correct.' I thought of you.)

 

[AMB]

Can't blame the dog for not using proper English.

I'd just missed this thread when I joined. Now you've resurrected it, and I've got "where be yon Blackbird to?" stuck in my head.

 

[Ökuþórr]

Again, I'm resurrecting an old thread...

So apparently not only do I write with an accent, I also text with a, and I quote, 'Somerset twang.'

All because I text someone to say that if I didn't go out with the dog at a certain time of day he'd 'start on.' I was unaware that 'starting on' wasn't what those who speak the Queen's English would say. Heh heh.

Now I have to go check my work for that!

Sounds a bit odd to me. Where I live, "Start on" was what we'd (back in school) say about someone trying to start a fight. "He's starting on him" "You starting on me?" "Don't start on him".

 

[AMB]

The dog wanted walkies; if he didn't get then of course he's likely to start on at her about it.

 

[Ursa major]

I've never heard the term, start on, used in this context, and I live in the next county**. The term I would use would be 'play up' (assuming I've deciphered your words correctly).

Apart from anything else, this has the benefit of being one character shorter.






** - Next ceremonial county, I mean.

 

[AMB]

Oo-er. Getting all ceremonial about it.

 

[Ursa major]

Not all of a ceremonial county is necessarily in an administrative county, AMB, as you should know.

 

[Pyan]

Coming, as I do, from Cumberland (not "Cumbria", the detestable chimera forced on us by the Act of 1974), as a lad I'd use the phrase "start on" to mean "getting upset and annoyed", as in " If I didn't go out with the dog at a certain time of day he'd start barking and pawing at the door"...

 

[Gary Compton]

Coming, as I do, from Cumberland

Your a sausage man??

 

[Pyan]

Heh - we must have the only food covered by a Protected Geographical Status agreement tied to a non-existent location in the country. Tastes better than, say, Pan Haggerty, too...

 

[crystal haven]

I'm afraid I've never heard 'start on' used before. And regarding 'gotten', I always think American, if it turns up in a book.

 

[Mouse]

Some of you are right. 'Start on' is when an annoying behaviour is being aimed at a person. So the dog plays up, but plays up so that it's aimed at me. Poking me with his nose, for example.