Monday, September 15, 2008

Since Young

‘I have been a James Bond fan since young’ (reader letter, New Paper, 7 August 2008).

Since young is a very common expression in Singapore, but it’s actually non-standard, since in Standard English (StdE) a preposition (in this case since) is normally followed by a noun, pronoun or some other constituent functioning like a noun. The StdE equivalent would be since my childhood or since I was young.

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