Remember redd up?
Well, appropriately enough, I was redding up my e-mail before the end of the year (nothing like starting off 2008 with a clean slate, or at least that's what I'm hoping) - and I came upon a response I'd overlooked to my earlier post on redding things up.
Next in the Yorkisms series...
I said this one today. "I'm going to see if the mail's been."
Yet another example of local economy of words, it means if something has "been here yet," but why not drop those last two words? Is there anything else I could possibly mean?
Another example... "Do we need anything at the store?" "No, I've been twice already this week." In that case, I've "been there," but again, who doesn't understand that without the wasted word?
Economy. It's all about economy, people.
