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'tis daft I know, but I hate hearing British people use this expression, and I've been hearing a lot in the media lately. (For any Americans reading we say, "at" the weekend)

― Tom D., Friday, 18 May 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

what i hate is the phrase "across it" as in "yes, we're across it" or "are you across it?" - what the hell?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard that

― Tom D., Friday, 18 May 2007 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

across what?

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

also, why 'at'? i've never understood that, the weekend as a place to be at rather than a time to be on, as in on a day, on monday, on the weekend, b/c who says at monday -> at the weekend?

( i feel like i am standing at the top of a very large rock made up of many many smaller rocks that are the repeated history of this argument )

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

you can't be on two things at once but you can be at one, no that doesn't work

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's the "end" bit that that "at" refers to.

You say "at the end of the day" or "at the end of the week" - you'd never say "on the end of the day".

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh like 'at the week's end'
at the mon's day
sure.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

None of this is nearly as detestable as:

MAYOR OF LONDON.

See what he did there?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

rrobyn and Tom D. apparently "i'm across it" means "i know about that and am up to speed on the details"

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

and i might even be preparing to action it

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KD1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

MAYOR OF LONDON.

See what he did there?

No!

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

also, why 'at'? i've never understood that, the weekend as a place to be at rather than a time to be on, as in on a day, on monday, on the weekend, b/c who says at monday -> at the weekend?

You can be 'on' a place ("it's on the table") and you can be 'at' a time ("I saw her at Christmas").

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

this is pretty low on my list. "Hotting up" should be dealt with first.

― Gukbe, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

'to protest something' as opposed to 'to protest against something' - this seems to be creeping into British English

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a US thing, to drop the preposition? (Is it a preposition?)

cf. "I'm going to write to my MP" vs. "I'm going to write my congressman"

― ledge, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

at the weekend - signifies a block of time apart
over the weekend - signifies a bridge between blocks of time
on the weekend - agnostic

― gabbneb, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a US thing, to drop the preposition? (Is it a preposition?)

I think that's one of those U.S. things that was a British thing when the colonists first went over, and changed in Britain but not in the U.S.

At least you guys don't have people who say "the Christmas" like we do. I hate it. Or people who put a vowel in front of "zoo" because FOR NO REASON.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

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