A recent book review on Linguist List gave examples of idioms from the
British corpus:

'take the plunge', 'see a point'  and 'write a letter'.

I gave no problems with the 1st and 3rd in my American English; however, I
do not recall ever

encountering the 2nd idiom:  "see my/your/his/her/their point."  I see no
point; I do not see any point;

I don't see the point.  Is there a point to this .?  The idiom "see a point"
is not in my American 

English corpus of usage-nor do I recall reading it.

 

 

N. Scott Catledge

 


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