Re: someone goes missing
- From: "Fran Read" <fread@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 21:56:17 GMT
I'd suspect a regionalism that is breaking out into more common parlance.Please stop doing it or I'll cry. "(Any form of the verb to be) missing"
I use both "is missing" and "gone missing" but I tend to say "gone
missing" if I mean something has been gone a while, not just discovered
to be missing recently.
is perfectly OK, but "missing" is not a place so you can't "go" there.
Mique
(who, while insane himself, thinks that "going bad or mad" is similarly
incorrect usage.)
Nah, Mique, you're just getting old and crabby. I go missing all the time,
but then I went mad years ago. Two little Kinders went missing from class
yesterday and the rest of us searched frantically for about half an hour.
They turned up in their own classroom storeroom, after having cheerfully
unpacked every container of counters, blocks and jigsaws they could reach.
Fran
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