Thank you for these great examples!

"has dispatched", by the way, is from amazon.co.uk.

Marie


>
> On 19-May-09, at 12:43 PM, Assembly for the Teaching of English
> Grammar wrote:
>
>> When I order books from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk, I sometimes
>> receive
>> messages saying:
>>
>> your order has shipped/has dispatched
>
> Amazon.ca uses only shipped, not dispatched.
>
> The OED has ship in a similar, but somewhat different sense from
> 1867: "It ships well, and is a very good peach."
>
> In the first 100 hits for HAVE + SHIP in the Corpus of Current
> American English, the only relevant examples I see are:
> -Popular Mechanics (2006) "there's a chance that your PC may have
> shipped with the hardware necessary to connect"
> -The Houson Chronicle (2005) "since her debut album in 1990, more
> than 150 million Carey albums have shipped."
>
> So, it does appear to be something of an innovation, and not
> particularly common.
>
> Best,
> Brett
>
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> English Language Centre
> Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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