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Peter Coghlan cctalk at beyondthepale.ie
Fri Dec 21 04:59:04 CST 2018


On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote:

>
> OK, so it's down *to* the bunker or down *in* the bunker. I'm just asking
> because of my language geekery. I still don't know, though, whether "down
> the bunker" without a preposition is idiomatic in some dialect of English I
> don't speak fluently. I just know some UK English speakers pronounce "down
> to the/down at the" ALMOST the same as "down the", but I believe there's
> still a glottal stop in the former but not the latter.
>

How about: "There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis"

Can we get back to the on-topic stuff now :-)

Regards,
Peter Coghlan


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