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Mind your language

I love it that you…

30 July 2015

1:00 PM

30 July 2015

1:00 PM

I had never heard the Country (Red Dirt) singer Wade Bowen before, although his latest album Hold my Beer (Vol 1) has already sold 14,000 copies. On an earlier album, he provided textbook examples of two constructions that I find increasingly annoying, and one that seems fine.

‘I love it that you’re my girl,’ sang Wade.

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