Comments on: Grizzly Bear: While you wait for the others http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/03/grizzly-bear/ Learning English Online with Anne Hodgson Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anne http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/03/grizzly-bear/comment-page-1/#comment-3506 Anne Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:05:50 +0000 http://annehodgson.de/?p=11872#comment-3506 @Chris, worthwhile music needs to be peeled slowly. @Chiew, I'm sorry, no slight intended; all fixed now. @Chris, worthwhile music needs to be peeled slowly.
@Chiew, I’m sorry, no slight intended; all fixed now.

]]> By: chris http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/03/grizzly-bear/comment-page-1/#comment-3505 chris Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:26:28 +0000 http://annehodgson.de/?p=11872#comment-3505 I'm waiting for my man Twenty-six dollars in my hand Up to Lexington, 125 Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive I'm waiting for my man Lou Reed. I’m waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I’m waiting for my man

Lou Reed.

]]> By: Chiew http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/03/grizzly-bear/comment-page-1/#comment-3504 Chiew Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:02:59 +0000 http://annehodgson.de/?p=11872#comment-3504 Hi Anne, Thanks for linking me up, but just to be pedantic - the name's Chiew N Pang not P Nang) Hehe. Hope you're doing fine. Regds. Hi Anne,
Thanks for linking me up, but just to be pedantic – the name’s Chiew N Pang not P Nang) Hehe.
Hope you’re doing fine. Regds.

]]> By: Anne http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/03/grizzly-bear/comment-page-1/#comment-3503 Anne Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:41:15 +0000 http://annehodgson.de/?p=11872#comment-3503 <strong>wait on = wait for</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/wait" rel="nofollow">Merriam-Webster</a> writes: "<strong>American</strong> dialectologists have evidence showing <strong>wait on</strong> in the sense of <strong>wait for </strong>to be more a Southern than a Northern form in speech. Handbook writers universally denigrate (<em>schlechter bewerten</em>) <strong>wait on</strong> and prescribe (<em>vorschreiben</em>) <strong>wait for</strong> in writing. Our evidence from printed sources does not show a regional preference; it does show that the handbooks' advice is not based on current usage: ...<em>settlement of the big problems still waited on Russia — Time ...I couldn't make out…whether Harper was waiting on me for approval — E. B. White ...the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown — Maya Angelou</em> One reason for the continuing use of <strong>wait on</strong> may lie in its being able to suggest protracted (<em>sich hinziehende</em>) or <strong>irritating waits</strong> better than <strong>wait for</strong>: <em>...for two days I've been waiting on weather — Charles A. Lindbergh ...the boredom of black Africans sitting there, waiting on the whims of a colonial bureaucracy — Vincent Canby ...doesn't care to sit around waiting on a House that's virtually paralyzed — Glenn A. Briere</em> <strong>"Wait on" is less common than "wait for", but if it seems natural, there is no reason to avoid it. </strong>" wait on = wait for
Merriam-Webster writes:
“American dialectologists have evidence showing wait on in the sense of wait for to be more a Southern than a Northern form in speech. Handbook writers universally denigrate (schlechter bewerten) wait on and prescribe (vorschreiben) wait for in writing. Our evidence from printed sources does not show a regional preference; it does show that the handbooks’ advice is not based on current usage:
…settlement of the big problems still waited on Russia — Time
…I couldn’t make out…whether Harper was waiting on me for approval — E. B. White
…the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown — Maya Angelou
One reason for the continuing use of wait on may lie in its being able to suggest protracted (sich hinziehende) or irritating waits better than wait for:
…for two days I’ve been waiting on weather — Charles A. Lindbergh
…the boredom of black Africans sitting there, waiting on the whims of a colonial bureaucracy — Vincent Canby
…doesn’t care to sit around waiting on a House that’s virtually paralyzed — Glenn A. Briere
“Wait on” is less common than “wait for”, but if it seems natural, there is no reason to avoid it. “

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