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If we are going to be picky - it should be 'may I have' rather than 'can I have', shouldn't it?

Your point , greatnan ?

'confuses' not 'confused'

baNANA my younger GS always answers with "I'm good" when I ask him how he is. I answer with "I'll be the judge of that", which always confused him as he's only seven!

And you have read most of this before - without checking every post since the forum's inception many new members would not realise that this is a perennial thread! It will come round again, be sure of it.

Nonu - the answer used to be 'well', not 'good', which is just as short!

When asked how I am I always say I"m good , short and to the point and also I feel better than reeling off a litany of complaints . Perhaps just me .

Have I read this before ? feels like Dejavu

Another Americanism which has crept in, people who go into coffee shops and ask "can I get a latte, flat white etc." rather than "can I have" it also seems to me if you ask anyone under 30 "how are you?" they tend to answer "I'm good" I feel like responding wasn't asking about your behaviour!

I didn't know they still spoke Middle English in the Black Country. Mostly I've just passed through without stopping.

jing was that Saxon English? I know it wasn't medieval because that's like my native black country!

Wot caustic remark? [innocent]

I'm sure it was just your dry sense of humour, wasn't it jingl?

I'm off. Back with you lot tomorrow. Bye for now.

Why the caustic remark, jingle?

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Somehow couldn't get it to work, but if it was OE, I doubt if I could speak it, even though at one time I could read and write it and - jingl what's wrong with saying one studied it?

listened to it , stone the crows !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jings

And, yes.

absent - you studied old English?! And you want us all to know it Wow!

Thought somebody meant s** off!