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Re: [GWL]: new topic?

Certainly spelling and usage change with the times, but does that mean we should start writing
"Me and my friend went downtown." You can hear that one a lot these days, even from students at
truly hoity-toity universities.  so where do we draw the line?

 there are many ungrammatical expressions that bother me a lot more than using "over" for "more
than" and i'm trying to figure out why. perhaps it's that "over" has acquired the meaning of
"more than" by now and the two are considered synonymous. But the logic of that means I'll be
writing "me and my friend" one of these days. a chilling thought. carolyn

Yvonne Cunnington wrote:

> English spelling has always been all over the map. Ben Jonson is supposed to
> have said something like: "It is a dull man indeed, who can only spell a
> word one way."
>
> As for usage, it constantly changes and the language evolves whether we like
> it or not. Complaints about the deterioration of English as as old as the
> language itself. And hasn't the way we use language been a marker of class
> for eons?
>
> -Yvonne Cunnington, Ancaster, Ontario
>
> Brook Elliott wrote:
>  Thing is, English, like all languages, is a living thing that changes over
> time.So, at what point does common usage become proper? If everybody does
> it, is it then correct? Or do we have to wait until some authority
> (Webster--OED---Funk & Wagnals) declares the change to be official? If they
> all use "over," and we insist on "more than," don't they start to think of
> us as boring snobs?
>
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