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5 comments:
aneh....
I love this area, but the grammar used, by natives and non-natives alike, is horrendous. "Do" instead of "Due," "should of" in place of "should have," and "to" in place of "too" are just a sampling of the grammatical ineptitude of Lancaster's denizens.
At least the local grammar offers no end of humorous memos and signage.
The one that gets me is "loose" for "lose".
I remember a guy on Jeopardy last year who said one of his hobbies is correcting bad signage with a Sharpie. I'm sorely tempted to do it myself sometimes!
"Due to" is wrong in that context anyway. "Due to" modifies nouns and almost always follows a form of the verb "to be." It means "attributable to." It answers what, not why. "Because of" answers why.
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