Landscaped With

A promo sheet for a very expensive house nearby states that it has a backyard that “has recently been landscaped with.” The phrase is probably a hybrid of “landscaped” and “messed with.”

And these are the people who keep turning their noses at my accent in English.

One response to “Landscaped With”

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    Jones

    “… är du gå med?” (på Svenska)

    “… are you going with?”

    In other words, you’ve probably just discovered an instance of Scandinavian American English.

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