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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007Fill up for cheap
The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find particular items. For economical motoring it has: "See where to fill up for cheap. Type: gas [zip code]." BrE would usually have "Fill up cheap". So is "for cheap" a standard AmE usage?  SignatureJohn Dean Oxford > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find > particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > usage? >[snip] I wouldn't say so. "For less," "for pennies," etc, would be common, but "for cheap" seems extraordinary. Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego > > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find > > particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I wouldn't say so. "For less," "for pennies," etc, would be common, > but "for cheap" seems extraordinary. Looks like an editing error, as if someone had tried to replace "for less" with "cheap" and failed to delete "for." SignatureBob Lieblich Familiar with such errors > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find > particular items. For economical motoring it has: > "See where to fill up for cheap. Type: gas [zip code]." > BrE would usually have "Fill up cheap". So is "for cheap" a > standard AmE usage? Short answer, no. Longer answer, I suppose there could be Americans who would say that, but I wouldn't, and I've never heard it or seen it, till now.. Maybe in SalvatorE. > > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to > > find particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > say that, but I wouldn't, and I've never heard it or seen > it, till now.. I've heard it, although not a lot. Googling about finds many examples, here's one: <http://www.techreview.com/Energy/17490/> Brian SignatureIf televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. -- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com) > > BrE would usually have "Fill up cheap". So is "for cheap" a > > standard AmE usage? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > say that, but I wouldn't, and I've never heard it or seen > it, till now.. I use it, informally. SignatureSML >The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find >particular items. For economical motoring it has: >"See where to fill up for cheap. Type: gas [zip code]." > >BrE would usually have "Fill up cheap". So is "for cheap" a standard AmE >usage? Standard? For what? Conversation? Formal writing? Headline writing? Certainly not unheard of. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is not above using it. http://www.techreview.com/Energy/17490/ It's too difficult to search for other uses since "for cheap" falls in the middle of too many sentences. SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL >Certainly not unheard of. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) >is not above using it. http://www.techreview.com/Energy/17490/ /Technology Review/ doesn't count. -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness >> The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to >> find particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Standard? For what? Conversation? Formal writing? Headline > writing? For anything. Hence I asked about *a* standard, not *the* standard. SignatureJohn Dean Oxford >>> The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to >>> find particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >For anything. Hence I asked about *a* standard, not *the* standard. In that case, it's no more or no less standard than any other combination of words using the word "cheap". What's the minimum requirement for "a standard"? It is used by some. Does that qualify it as "a standard"? SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL >>>> The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to >>>> find particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > What's the minimum requirement for "a standard"? Whatever requirement was met for you to write "it's no more or no less standard than any other combination of words " SignatureJohn Dean Oxford > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find > particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > John Dean > Oxford I 've heard "On the cheap" But that is usually used to describe parsimony. "Tony is trying to buy a car on the cheap" > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find > particular items. For economical motoring it has: > "See where to fill up for cheap. Type: gas [zip code]." > > BrE would usually have "Fill up cheap". So is "for cheap" a standard AmE > usage? In northwest Michigan, neither would be unidiomatic, at least not so's you'd notice. My preference, though, would be to leave out the "for". I might even lean toward "cheaply", though I have nothing against "cheap" under those circumstances. > > The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find > > particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > even lean toward "cheaply", though I have nothing against "cheap" under > those circumstances. I wonder if it's related to the hideous "for free" which now seems to have replaced the adverbial "free" as the usual shortening of "free of charge". SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >>>The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > have replaced the adverbial "free" as the usual shortening of "free of > charge". I think that's why "for cheap" didn't strike me as totally weird. I've got so used to hearing "for free" that I probably use it myself when I'm not looking. SignatureRob Bannister >The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to find >particular items. For economical motoring it has: >"See where to fill up for cheap. Type: gas [zip code]." > >BrE would usually have "Fill up cheap". So is "for cheap" a standard AmE >usage? This has echoes of "free" and "for free". SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >> The Yahoo search page usually contains a tip on shortcuts to use to >> find particular items. For economical motoring it has: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > This has echoes of "free" and "for free". For sure! SignatureSkitt Jes' fine |
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