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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