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Maybe not in your dialect of English, but what about older dialects? "Pay for your beer. Else, leave this place at once!"
by echlebek 6y ago
Maybe not in your dialect of English, but what about older dialects?
"Pay for your beer. Else, leave this place at once!"
- enf 6y agoThis is a usage that I have no memory of ever encountering in any context other than computer programming. It may be in some dialects, but not in ones I have come in conscious contact with.
- enf 6y agoActually, no, you are right: I seem to have received one email message that begins a sentence with "else" in 1996 and another in 2003. So it is not unknown to me, but it is quite rare.