Chip Orleans
Southern phrase? who is "THEY"?
I moved to New Orleans from New England three years ago....everyone down here uses the phrase "they got" ....as in "they got potato chips in the kitchen" or "could you bring me the t-shirts they got in the other room" ....who is THEY??????? 99% of the time the items that "they" got belong to the person making the comment! From where does this coloquialism derive?
i get that what you've all said so far, and they've got is better...referring to the homeowner...but if YOU are the homeowner, would it be "I've got" or "there are"??????
This is a great example of regional dialect and usage in American English!
To the best of my understanding (and I am a southerner, too, originally), this is a variation that has evolved from "there are",
so "there are potato chips in the kitchen" or "There are some T-shirts in the other room; could you bring them to me?"
Isn't language an amazing thing!
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