Anonymous ID: 222288 July 27, 2019, 2:07 p.m. No.7218894   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8989

>>7218844

it was pretty normal in English prior to about 1800. Certain transcriptions of George Washington's speech contain this usage, for example.

 

Nunes' tweet wasn't ungramatical… but it's in an outdated style of English that we no longer encounter in everyday conversation.

 

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Banks of the Sweet Primroses

 

Fairport Convention

Traditional

 

As I walked out on a midsummer's morning

For to view the fields and to take the air

Down by the banks of the sweet primroses

There I beheld a most love lie fair…