Timeline for Is saying "I had a fever" correct?
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| Jul 25, 2021 at 21:05 | comment | added | DjinTonic | I know I shouldn't, but I shiver when I hear someone has a temperature? My Collins labels it as informal. | |
| Jul 25, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1419402095770357761 | ||
| Jul 25, 2021 at 18:09 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Mar 30, 2013 at 12:36 | comment | added | GEdgar | Why put the apostrophe there 'flu and not there flu' or maybe both? In the US I usually just see flu. | |
| S Mar 30, 2013 at 8:38 | history | suggested | Raghav | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2013 at 6:47 | answer | added | Amita Buch | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 3, 2011 at 13:28 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @FumbleFingers - What? Can't hear you over this steam-shovel... | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 21:00 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @T.E.D.: When you're in a hole, stop digging! :) | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 20:55 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @FumbleFingers - I'd classify him more as a poet myself. The thing is poetry (particularly when set to music) often has to take a bit of license. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 17:53 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @T.E.D.: IMHO Roger Waters is an articulate speaker, so I see no problem citing him for a typical usage. But here's a more broad-based selection from NGrams if he needs backing up. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 17:49 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 17:45 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @FumbleFingers - I don't think Pink Floyd lyrics count as authoritative on proper English language usage....but they damn well ought to. :-) | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Urbycoz: Doubtless tonsilitis (the kissing disease) does have a bit of a peak in September/October when vast numbers of young people start living away from home as they enter tertiary education. But 'flu has more of a reputation for coming in "waves". So you say you had the 'flu because there's often a sense of the particular strain of 'flu doing rounds at the time. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 15:54 | vote | accept | Some Guy | ||
| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:48 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:37 | vote | accept | Some Guy | ||
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:36 | comment | added | Urbycoz | And yet you would normally say "I had the flu" and "I had toncillitis". | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:33 | answer | added | Stop Slandering Monica Cellio | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:11 | comment | added | Some Guy | Cool. Thanks. I can't believe my English teacher tried to mock me for saying that. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | From Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb When I was a child I had a fever. You can drop the article, but it's normally present. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:03 | history | asked | Some Guy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |