Partridge, Eric
Usage and Abusage : A Guide to Good English
: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. . , H, Binding is tight, corners badly bumped and frayed, covers rubbed, spine sun damaged, edges worn, usual heavy library profanations, "a, 'a. The indefinate article is often introduced, though quite superfluously, in such sentences as: 'No more signal a defeat was ever inflicted' (quoted by Fowler). In 'He's the party as had a done it,' its use is merely illiterate and may be due to the difficulty of pronouncing the two d's. It may represent have in ' I would 'a done it' and in had 'ave (q.v.).", etc., 369 pages.; . Good, Cloth, No Jacket, .
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