Timeline for Is "I heard you had ..." a valid expression?
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 23:21 | comment | added | Steve Ives | Maybe those two words occur next to each other quite frequently in Google searches, but "I hear you have Christmas..." or "I heard you had Christmas..." Is just not something a native English speaker would say. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 20:14 | comment | added | JavaLatte | "have Christmas" is perfectly acceptable. Here is an Ngram books.google.com/ngrams/… Not all are in the required sense, but here are some appropriate examples: "Wombats don't have Christmas", "Oh, I know you can have Christmas under any circumstances", "We can't very well have Christmas without one". | |
| Dec 7, 2015 at 14:42 | history | answered | Steve Ives | CC BY-SA 3.0 |