It's fine by me, dear , but a bit stiff ( or stiffy :)) that's something for Terri
Engee
Couldn’t agree more. But this a prescriptive rule, which you seem to be identified with, as I’m remember it correctly..huh ? as if there were so many of them to choose from. :)
I’m not a staunch supporter of such ‘irregularities’ in general, quite the opposite, but this is the domain of prescriptivists, like ‘do as they say, period. It’s fine by me but I much prefer the other way to the former,
that is, someone, who would be telling me how they may really speak on a daily basis.
By the way, there’s also something like ‘grammaticallity judgement test”. Those linguists dealing with generative syntax as a cognitive science do these kind of experiments. Monsters :)
Maybe we could do that kind of test, just for fun ? I’ll take three for a foursome, ok. Oprah would come first, you know, ‘good for the warmth in the winter and good for the shade in the summer ..,