YALP (Yet Another Language Poll)

[gnomi]

...with some weather thrown in for good measure.

ETA: Please forgive the typo in the last question. That should be "somewhere."

[Poll #672534]

Comments

[kalessin.livejournal.com]

I say either of "Get off the bus" and "Get off of the bus" depending on the context, company and formality expected. So, "both." :-)

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Snow is best on the weekend only because my office doesn't close EVER. So if it's snowing I have to drive to work (and drive the baby to daycare, too) or use a vacation day and take a day off.

[cellio]

First question: I believe I say both; I had to think about it to guess which is more common.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

There is not nearly enough snow on the ground here. You southerners hogged it all.

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

When I exit a bus, I usually say...
"Thank you"
...to the driver. :)

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Like kalessin, I use either "off the bus" or "off of the bus" so it really is "both" not one or the other. I flipped a coin (literally) to pick one.

Also, I never know what to do with your question about where I primarily learned how to speak English. I spent my first year in Scotland, my second year in Maryland. Then I lived for 5 years (from age 3-8) in Spain. Most of that time was on a military base. Then I moved to Connecticut. I chose "US" because I believe my real English-acquiring years were in Spain (when I also was learning Spanish), but most of my teachers were American and certainly my parents were American.

However, I do tend to use British spellings of words like: theatre, colour, etc. I'm not certain why or where I picked that up.

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

I learned English first from my parents, while growing up in France. I went to the occasional English summer school class and part of the summer to Rhode Island. There was also Sunday school at the Anglican church. During the academic year I went to the American Centre not far from us, but that was mostly for arts & crafts, dance lessons, etc. School was pure French. I think my English was still pretty bookish-sounding when we moved to NYC. Oh yeah, almost forgot--I went to an American-run kindergarten, at which some but not all of the kids were sproggen of expats. The teachers spoke both languages.

What 'Enry 'Iggins would make of my accent, I have NO idea.

And I too say Thank You to the bus driver. :-)