Firstly, thank you so much for you 'as an aside', which made me grin like a mad woman and purr, myself. *bg*
Yes, this post was about the word 'said' in that context. From the conversations that happened in the comments threads, I have come to the conclusion that 'said' is used fairly commonly in (at least parts of) the US. The writers on Buffy were American and they wrote the lines without really trying to exclude American word usage from Giles' dialogue, and Anthony Head didn't correct them.
It sounds like you have a very interesting family, or a family that is interested in words, which is almost the same thing *g* I like your brother's 'inhuming' although I'm not sure how one would use it outside of the assassin's guild, or some equivelent organisation. The grave robbers' guild? One of my favourite non-words is 'couth'. Saying "I don't have much couth" is not nearly as bad as admitting to being uncouth. *g*
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Date: 2011-03-19 08:29 am (UTC)Yes, this post was about the word 'said' in that context. From the conversations that happened in the comments threads, I have come to the conclusion that 'said' is used fairly commonly in (at least parts of) the US. The writers on Buffy were American and they wrote the lines without really trying to exclude American word usage from Giles' dialogue, and Anthony Head didn't correct them.
It sounds like you have a very interesting family, or a family that is interested in words, which is almost the same thing *g* I like your brother's 'inhuming' although I'm not sure how one would use it outside of the assassin's guild, or some equivelent organisation. The grave robbers' guild?
One of my favourite non-words is 'couth'. Saying "I don't have much couth" is not nearly as bad as admitting to being uncouth. *g*