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I'm a born 'southerner', and live there now. I use the expression 'back and forth', but having travelled around a lot in my 'youf' also use 'to and fro', this way & that' etc.

I also use the expressions 'outwith' and 'last evening', which if memory serves me right, I picked up in the Shetlands!

"a fog of illiteracy and undo-able crosswords"

Good one. ;)


My doc told me the other day that her youngest child has not been taught cursive handwriting in school -- and can't read it.

I'm a born 'southerner', and live there now. I use the expression 'back and forth', but having travelled around a lot in my 'youf' also use 'to and fro', this way & that' etc.

I also use the expressions 'outwith' and 'last evening', which if memory serves me right, I picked up in the Shetlands!

lose the 'between' lol

And another vote for the side of right; comment by "born southerner" reported with the rest. ;)

"To and fro the kitchen and the lounge"?

Seriously? That's *really* weird! Just makes me feel like skipping and collecting some posies, it does!

"Back and Forth" was used by my father and his mother.

"Coming and Going" was used by my mother and her mother.

Cass

Lol Janey...you're just choosing who is right by who fits in with what you want to be right....sheesh!.....I am not sure I understood what I wrote there lol

Have we had to-ing and fro-ing yet? Edit - yes we have. Well, sort of.

I'm begining to think that some of it is the way we might write, and the other the way we speak. Plus of course the generation/age group we are in.

*"To and fro the kitchen and the lounge"?*


Yes but one wouldn't say *back and forth the kitchen* either. one would drop the 'THE' and add another word, as in......back and forth, from the kitchen to the dining room.


From the dining room and kitchen she went to and fro all evening.




BTW....if anyone is interested lol....yes I do use 'one' every day in conversation

Oh, sigh.

The thing in question was:

... going back and forth between the kitchen and the lounge.

You can't drop either the "between" or the "the".

Noting: one also says "back and forth to the kitchen". No dropping of "to" or "the".

But "back and forth" doesn't already include "to" or "from"!


Are you now telling me you say "to and fro kitchen and lounge"?

I'll believe it!


Sorry if it seemed I'd wandered off. I had. I was back at that site explaining how when someone said Tony Blair was "back at it", they meant he was back at yapping like a poodle. ;)

Tsk Janey...have just explained that...yer not listening lol


whoops....no I didn't

NO....one doesn't say *"to and fro kitchen and lounge"?*
although To and fro is used in one of the explanations below.

Think this is regional. We'd say

Back and forth to the kitchen.

Blame the TV. We've lost or aquired loads of our regional expressions.

......that's 'born southerner' - born in Sussex, moved to Wales at 8 weeks, Malta at 2, Scotland at 5, Cornwall at 7, Devon at 8, Cornwall at 10, Hampshire at 11, where I remained until aged 17 - Saudi Arabia, 18 Hampshire; 19, Shetland; 22, Scotland and the Borders; 24 Essex; 28 Hampshire.
So, I've never lived in the north of England!! LOL

My parents were brought up in Cornwall and Hampshire - so no 'Northern' influence form them!

Yer, Susan# -- you said

Yes but one wouldn't say *back and forth the kitchen* either. one would drop the 'THE' and add another word, as in......back and forth, from **the** kitchen to the dining room.

... and you'll note me emphasizing the undropped "the" there. ;)


Yeeeesh, if you people would just talk normal, we wouldn't have these problems.

I've never said " to & fro

but i'm always saying " back & forth " like a blue ars*d fly . lol
thats one on my favourite sayings ,

Karen xx

I'd say 'back and forth to the kitchen' - from wherever I was!

And DET comes clean!

Maggie, did I spell "born southerner" wrong or sumpin? I promise, I did it right in the place where I put it!

edit -- I included the ditdits!

To and *from* the kitchen....Not *fro*

Back and forth between the kitchen and dining room

Only on paper!!!!