Re: Typo?


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Posted by Robert Hill on February 26, 2014 at 14:46:54 user eclrh.

In Reply to: Re: Typo? posted by Peter Hyland on February 26, 2014 at 13:27:07:

I'm quite old too but I would regard "I'll look out some books for you" as a normal current usage. However the example Ed has found in PP seems odd to me.

Just before coming here I was looking at the Lakeland Cam, where a picture of a collapsed stretch of drystone wall is captioned "A wall has rushed in Bog Lane with all the rain". I hadn't encountered that usage of "rush" before so I looked in what has become my usual dictionary, the online OED. It's described now rare and Scottish: "To fall quickly or violently; to collapse."


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