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"All the sudden" vs "all of a sudden"
USIron
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2009/01/25 - 3:57pm

My wife uses the former, I use the latter. I never heard it until I met her (and her family) and now I am starting to hear it more often. Anyone else familiar with this? I think her way is wrong, of course.

Andrew
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2009/01/27 - 12:40pm

In Indiana you more commonly hear "all of a sudden" or "all of the sudden". But the alternative "all the sudden" is still used.

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