- Location
- Phillips County, Colorado
Heh. It's quite a popular turn of phrase where I live, and has been in other areas. I've heard it in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa, Illinois, Arizona, New Mexico, California... admittedly not in cities so much. (Damn, I'm glad I no longer have to go wherever Uncle Sammy sends me.)No. It's not. You're literally the only person I've ever heard say something as batshit insane as this. If my kid said something like this, I'd slap the stupid out of him.
I've noticed that people who speak proper English are annoyed by it, and those who speak Received English practically look as if they're in physical pain when they overhear it. Germans who spoke English tended to look puzzled by it, while French who spoke English looked amused. Austrians simply asked me to explain it.
And the nuns of Mount St. Vincents in Denver tended to whip out the ruler and start cracking knuckles whenever they heard someone use it. Or at least they did back in my day.