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Mar 25th, 2011, 11:14 am
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Ah - OK. I'd misunderstood. I'd assumed your friend was a native speaker who was insisting that "his" way of speaking was the correct way.
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Mar 25th, 2011, 10:32 am
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Language changes. In Shakepeare's time the expression was "to play on the (instrument)". Here's a quote from one of Christopher Marlowe's plays :
(Tamburlaine the Great, Part I. ) .... "We learn,"...
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Mar 25th, 2011, 05:20 am
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Play guitar is now much more common in both US and UK English . If you search the British National Corpus (http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/using/index.xml?ID=simple) you find :
play guitar : 27...
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