On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> You can think that if you like, but it's not even remotely true. It's a
> deliberate choice to use a new, perfectly reasonable and now widely accepted
> style of which you disapprove, but it's not lazy.
It never occurred to me that this usage is even non-traditional. I am
a native English speaker born in Ireland in the 1980s.
--
Peter Geoghegan
