a split

[ostap77]

Is it like a break-up?

''How are you?"

"Not so good. I'm getting over a split."

 

[bhaisahab]

Is it like a break-up?

''How are you?"

"Not so good. I'm getting over a split."

It probably is but I've never heard it.

 

[ostap77]

It probably is but I've never heard it.

"And these days, getting over a split may be tougher than ever."

 

[bhaisahab]

"And these days, getting over a split may be tougher than ever."

Perhaps, yes.

 

[5jj]

I've just split (up) with my girlfriend.

My wife and I split (up) twelve years ago. I haven't seen her since the split.

Fine as a verb, and as a noun with the definite article but, like bhaisahab, I haven't met it with the indefinite article in this sense.

In a non-relationship meaning, it's possible:

There has been a split in the ranks of the Liberal Party.

 

[ostap77]

I've just split (up) with my girlfriend.

My wife and I split (up) twelve years ago. I haven't seen her since the split.

Fine as a verb, and as a noun with the definite article but, like bhaisahab, I haven't met it with the indefinite article in this sense.

In a non-relationship meaning, it's possible:

There has been a split in the ranks of the Liberal Party.

It's an extract from "COSMOPOLITAN".

 

[5jj]

It's an extract from "COSMOPOLITAN".

So?

Bhaisahab said he'd never heard it.
I said I hadn't met it.

Neither of us said that it was wrong.