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 [log in to unmask] ----Original Message Follows---- From: "PAUL E. DONIGER" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar 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/