Timeline for "Go ahead" vs. "Carry on" in AE usage
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Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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Sep 20, 2015 at 13:03 | vote | accept | Elian | ||
May 25, 2014 at 11:18 | comment | added | Mike | When you write AE, you mean AmE? I assume so from the context anyway. One could use carry on in this like this in AmE, but continue or one of the other variants you reference would be more common | |
Mar 23, 2014 at 2:50 | answer | added | keshlam | timeline score: 3 | |
Mar 23, 2014 at 1:54 | comment | added | Terpsichore | Carry on is certainly BE, but I don't know whether it has any currency in the US as well. If it has, it's less often heard than go ahead, which does have some currency in the UK too, but not as much as in the US. | |
Mar 22, 2014 at 23:09 | history | asked | Elian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |