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Unread Oct 14th, 2006, 06:23 pm
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Those seem good to me and I'm American. We use them all in the same manner.
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Those seem good to me and I'm American. We use them all in the same manner.
Odd - a lot of American speakers have been adament that they'd never say something like Have you ever ridden a camel? but only Did you ever ride ....

What do other people think?
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Default Re: The Present Perfect in American English

I had this come up in our teachers office once. It's was a discussion between a Canadian and two Brits. I think the Canadian said something like "Are you finished?" and the brits were saying "Have you finished?"..... or it was the other way around.

I still don't understand why English people say "I was sat at the counter." or "I was stood outside."
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