Timeline for Give it me! Write me!
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| Nov 10, 2013 at 21:24 | comment | added | WS2 | In tennis they are directed well enough, surely, to say 'he hit me a ball'. But that's not the point. 'He tossed me a pen' serves just as well. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 21:14 | comment | added | J.R. | I don't think I'd say "he hit me the ball" (maybe because hits tend to just go where they go?); however, I'd have no problem with "he tossed me the ball." I don't think it's just me. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 21:11 | comment | added | WS2 | There is nothing you have said there that differs from the UK, north and south. 'He hit me the ball' is an everyday use in London or in Manchester. But the one verb where Americans depart from us in this respect is 'write', but only in the sense of writing a letter. 'I last wrote him in August' they will say. Even in northern England, notwithstanding all their 'give it me' and 'give it me back', they will say 'write to him'. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 20:31 | history | answered | bib | CC BY-SA 3.0 |