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 > > ----------------------- > Brett Reynolds > English Language Centre > Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface > at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/