Timeline for "Don't let's fight"
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| Mar 6, 2012 at 19:26 | comment | added | H Stephen Straight | These statistics ignore the ambiguity of the us component of let's [verb]: Does it include the addressee and thus function as an invitation, or does it exclude the addressee and thus function as a request for permission? | |
| Mar 6, 2012 at 3:17 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Notice that most "don't let's" from your results are in quotation marks: many appear to be part of an artificial rendering of informal speech in novels, alongside "ain't". The "let's not" appear more often in serious articles and dialogues. | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 14:32 | history | edited | hippietrail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2012 at 22:44 | history | answered | GEdgar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |