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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's lots of things that can seem perfectly natural to English speakers in one country, and just plain "wrong" to those in others. My personal bugbear is the common American English expression "I could care less". To a British English speaker this is just WRONG (we say "I couldn't care less").
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Harry, I think that all Americans with a proper education agree with you.
On plenty of occasions, when someone has said, "I could care less," I have heard someone respond, "You could? I couldn't."