The Mirror is running "The Ultimate Scrooge Quiz," based on the 1951 film. (H/T The Buzfuz)
If you need help, Fox Movie Channel is running the film continuously (with 12-minute breaks between airings) until about 3 ET this morning, and then again tomorrow from 3 to 11 p.m. ET. I'd have mentioned it before, but I didn't know about it until tonight!
Why does the well-spoken nephew use 'don't' in the third person? What's Dickens trying to demonstrate here?
"His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it. He don't make himself comfortable with it. He hasn't the satisfaction of thinking--ha, ha, ha!--that he is ever going to benefit US with it."
Posted by: Cecil Cook | January 04, 2015 at 09:52 PM
Interesting question. You sometimes see that usage in 19th-century literature, but I don't know why. Estella does it in "Great Expectations." And I remember seeing it in Louisa May Alcott's "An Old-Fashioned Girl." Maybe it was just a slangy thing that the educated did along with the uneducated?
Posted by: Gina | January 05, 2015 at 12:01 PM