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Was & Were in English dialects

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08-Dec-2003, 13:38

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Was & Were in English dialects

Many newspapers have been carrying transcripts from a trial here in the UK recently and there are a number of examples of a dialectal usage of the verb 'be' quoted that would be marked wrong if a student used them...

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