[lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:04:03 +0100
Re:
... 'I'm positive,' used to mean 'I'm sure,' etc. is an idiom peculiar
to American English. ...
'I'm positive' in the sense of 'I'm sure', etc., is - or at least at
one time was - idiomatic in Canadian English as well. I seem to recall
the use of 'positively' in this sense in British English but cannot
give a supporting quotation.
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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