Paul,

Are you referring to this example as miscreated adjective or misused word?

"He was to the store"

There's a local dialect that uses "to" instead of "at" or where there's no
preposition in Standard.

"Where were you last night? I was to the store."

"I called to the ferry office." (This last example is in a paper I just
corrected)

I hear and read it all the time in my Downeast students speech and writing.

--

Christine Reintjes Martin
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