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Posted by Sandy Bell on June 29, 2009, 4:10 am
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> Hi Guys,
> =A0 =A0 OK -- when I was growing up & in school, the word "bust" meant bo=
som
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> or a statue of the upper portion of the body. =A0That's more or less from
> memory and without looking it up in the dictionary for precise info. =A0I=
f
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> something didn't work anymore, it was broken or if you caused it to not
> work any more then you broke it. =A0 You didn't BUST down a door or BUST
> out of a locked room. =A0About the only time you would use the term "bust=
"
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> was when gambling and you "went bust".
> =A0 =A0 So why now is the term "broke" never used? =A0It seems that BUST =
has
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> taken it's place. =A0I was watching a Modern Marvels repeat about Ice Roa=
d
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> Trucking and if a truck fell through the ice it didn't break through, it
> BUST through! =A0We were watching something on PBS last week and the voic=
e
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> over said the same thing. =A0Instead of breaking out some windows, the
> windows were busted out.
> =A0 =A0 I'm sorry but that's just plain WRONG! =A0I know, I know -- langu=
age
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> is a living thing and changes all the time. =A0This is one of those times
> when I just get my back up and refuse to "go with the flow" -- LOLOL.
> There are loads of other language and grammar changes that don't bother
> MOI. =A0Using bust instead of broke is NOT one of them ;-)!!! =A0Rant Mod=
e
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> off =A0CiaoMeow >^;;^<
> PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< =A0 (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
> Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
> their whiskers!
> Visit my Photo albums at =A0http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
I couldn't agree more - it seems past tense is just that, a thing of
the past!!! Here in Australia they use a partically annoying phrase -
these ones & those ones, it drives me up a wall!!!!
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> =A0 =A0 OK -- when I was growing up & in school, the word "bust" meant bo=