Re: My version

At 1:02:37 PM on Saturday, February 21, 2009, tgpedersen
wrote:

>>> I ran into a couple of common German-substrate (my
>>> interpretation) expressions in the Midwest:

>>> 'I want out',
>>> Brit.Eng. 'I want to get out',
>>> German 'Ich will raus'

>> This is common US.

> That doesn't make it less German.

It reduces the likelihood of a German origin.

[...]

> Here's another one, but later:
> German, ca. 1970's : 'auf der Uni' "at the/my university"
> Danish, ca. 1980's: 'på uni' (note, no article)
> English, 2000's 'at uni'

Note that that's definitely not U.S. usage. It's also
parallel to British 'in hospital' (U.S. 'in the hospital'),
and it goes back at least to the early 1990s in both England
and Australia.

Brian