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I've often wondered why people say, "I'm getting ON the train/bus" but they say, "I'm getting IN a car/cab" A friend of mine guessed that its said because I bus is high of the ground but no one says that they are getting ON their truck. No one will tell their children to go get ON the truck but WILL say go get IN the truck.
I say I'm on the train, on the bus, but in the cab. I've never heard anyone say they're on a cab or other type of car.
I always say I'm "standing on line". I grew up saying it that way and no one ever mentioned it was odd to them until I went to college. But I still say it anyway and don't consider it incorrect.
From my parents and older our family says "you's" but my generation of the family and younger do not.
I've often wondered why people say, "I'm getting ON the train/bus" but they say, "I'm getting IN a car/cab" A friend of mine guessed that its said because I bus is high of the ground but no one says that they are getting ON their truck. No one will tell their children to go get ON the truck but WILL say go get IN the truck.
I split the difference: I'm IN LINE if I have been standing there for a while but if I am about to join the end of the line I might say "We have to get ON line."
But I could just as well use IN LINE for both.
Of course one is only IN a cab or IN a car... but ON a train or ON the plane.
Wholly cr*p, they're in/on/between the trains, no wonder I read somewhere that thousands of people die each year falling off the trains just in the capital of India. It's like if we had 10 crazy people jumping off the subway platform everyday.
You certainly cannot say you have been ON India unless you are reading a geography chapter about the country.
(No wonder foreigners go NUTS trying to learn "American.")
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