{"id":7206,"date":"2012-06-26T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:22:09","slug":"im-going-llandudno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7206","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going Llandudno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day in the supermarket I heard a bloke say to his friend something like, &#8220;Tomorrow I&#8217;m going Llandudno&#8221; &#8211; the lack of <em>to<\/em> after going struck me as slightly strange, though the utterance was perfectly understandable. I&#8217;ve heard a few other people talking about going to places without the to and wondered if anyone else has noticed this, or any similar expressions.<\/p>\n<p>When you think about it, go is rarely used without a preposition such as to, up, down, out, in, over, under, etc. Other verbs of motion, such as come and move, behave in similar ways and rarely appear without an accompanying preposition.<\/p>\n<p>When you talk about travelling in your country do you say &#8220;I&#8217;m going up to X&#8221;, or the equivalent, if you&#8217;re going north, and &#8220;I&#8217;m going down to X&#8221; if you&#8217;re travelling south. What about east and west?<\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Brighton I said that I was going up to London, which is north of Brighton, but from Bangor I go down to London, which is south (and east) of Bangor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day in the supermarket I heard a bloke say to his friend something like, &#8220;Tomorrow I&#8217;m going Llandudno&#8221; &#8211; the lack of to after going struck me as slightly strange, though the utterance was perfectly understandable. I&#8217;ve heard a few other people talking about going to places without the to and wondered if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,117,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-grammar","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}