Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — Common Errors in Speech. [ARTICLE]

Common Errors in Speech.

The verb to get is one «f our much Abraded words; it mean? to acquire, win. obtain; and, primarily, I*. signifies the putting forth pf effort to attain Something. Consequently ft; not only tuperfluous, but incorrect, to speak of a man as “getting drowned' or ick and you may, unfortunately, *bave a oold,” btfi. it Is ImpcsslMe that you “have got a cold.” At this moment no exceptions occur to the writer to the rale that got should never be used in ■Nino ection with have, which alone sufMostly expresses uosseaslon. a*» ‘d