User talk:Etoiledemeretcafe

Save for
I don't know where you got the impression that the expression "save for" is used only in US English, and not British English. There have continued to be numerous uses of the expression in British sources from the sixteenth century to the twenty first century. Shakespeare used the expression fairly frequently, as for example "save for a night of groans" in "Richard III" and "save for the son" in "The Tempest". Dickens used the expression, as for example "save for these differences, one might be travelling just now in Kent". An unimpeachably British use from the 21st century is to be found in a report from the Law Society of Scotland on a case from 2004, which says "Save for one interview, involving the appellant Dudley, he found that they could." "Save for" is not, and never has been, in everyday colloquial use either in British English or iny any other version of English, but throughout the recorded history of the expression it has continued to be used in formal or literary English by British authors. JBW (talk) 20:17, 16 March 2024 (UTC)