colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (02/21/85)
> Something that's suddenly bugging me is the construction "I've got", > as in "I've got to go to the store", sometimes also "I have got to > go to the store." It's a natural colloquialism. "I have to" has an "h", which makes it awkward to pronounce. (Ask any Frenchman.) "I've got to" is easier to pronounce and to hear. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...decvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel