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But Dizzi! You have to vote!

Do you say "back and forth" when you're talking ordinary talk to ordinary people??

Back and forth would be the proper english for it, and terms like 'came and went' all boil down to regional accents and dialect. I think in the south, many would say backwards and forwards,. coming and going, (came and went), in and out, etc.

It all depends which part you come from, and in normal speech, these would be used rather than the back and forth, which would be written.

Dear Janey

Hello

Hope you are well.

I usually 'there and back'!

I suppose there is a deep psychological process behind this!

Oh, I have taken your advice about the door card for unwanted canvassers.

Have also sorted out the 'pea shooter' from the 'pee-shooting'!
Although the latter would be an excellent idea to ward off these cavassers.

Take care

Very best wishes
xx

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IN & OUT,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,RUNS AN HIDES

Liz Purple, I need you especially (so I'll send you a PM).

Who here uses the expression "back and forth", and who doesn't?

I mention Liz because I did a search of the boards here and she seems particularly fond of the expression. ;)


Let me illustrate the expression, in case anybody really isn't familiar with it:

I was going back and forth to the bathroom all night after eating that fish.
She kept going back and forth to the kitchen to get things she'd forgotten.
He went back and forth between Manchester and London all his life.

or

The pendulum was swinging back and forth.


Am I speaking a foreing language??

I'm being told (by a good working-class northern England girl) that no good working-class northern England girl would ever say such a thing as "back and forth". "Too formal" she says. "Formal?! How ridiculous!" say we.

She wouldn't say she went back and forth to the kitchen.
Apparently, she'd say she came and went from the kitchen.
She wouldn't tell her dog to stop walking back and forth when it wants out.
She'd tell her dog to stop coming and going.

All of which sounds utterly dorky to me, and like some poor ESL student trying to speak the lingo.


So?

Back and forth? or not back and forth?