1516: Regional Phrases in the USA Feb 5, 2019

While American grammar is overall remarkably similar, city-to-city and region-to-region, there are a few areas in which people really differ. Although not especially syntactically significant, terms like "(standing) on line" or "in line", or "calling in sick" compared to "calling out sick" often have regional variants. There aren't hard-and-fast rules for any of these things, but generally there are 4 regions where these sorts of divisions can be seen across the US: the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southeast, and the West, and there isn't only one that is always the odd region in every case.
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