Here’s a Yorkism that’s especially good for this time of year, when it gets icy. It’s not “slippery” out. Oh, no.
It’s slippy. Yes, this is another saying I’m guilty of using.
In this case, I argue that it’s just like dropping “to be” from my verbs. It’s an economization of syllables. It makes you slip. It’s slippy.
Yes? No?
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Yes! OMG, does that ever take me back!I can hear my grandmother right now, telling me to be careful on the front steps when I went out to play in the snow, “they’re slippy!” LOL