Money in the bank - poll
 

Let's say you have money in the bank. How do you refer to it's location?

I guess we would say we have an account at the Credit Union. I don't think we use the other constructions.

My savings are at my bank, in my account, and I owe money on a credit card.

At three in the afternoon on Friday.

I have to try and teach this shit. There are no general rules that I know of.

Thanks Zen. More answers, ppl, please!

Yabbut, Griff, the money, is it on or in your account at the Credit Union?

"How much is in your account?"

"Not much, on account of the fact that I'm broke."

I was accounting on you to say that.



'cause there is no accounting for you.


:)

How do you account for the fact that I reconcile approximately 80 million a year and I can't straighten out my own finances?

There's no accounting for taste. Um, er...

If I had any, it would be IN the bank.
I probably wouldn't say in my account, but I certainly wouldn't say ON my account.

When I used to get things on credit from my local shop in Leicester (usually on a Friday night, before I got my cash wages on Saturday) I would ask if I could put the items on my account. When I say local I mean local - two doors down. I'd buy healthy things like beer and fags and home-made curry and say, "Okay to put these on my account? I'll be in tomorrow." And in that way I spent my wages without having received them even without a credit or debit card, or chequebook.

Still at least I never once defaulted or paid later than we had agreed. It was a family run shop and they were very good to me. Unlike the miserable newsagents over the road where I went to get hangover drinks (the Banerjees didn't open until 22.00). I was there probably every weekend for 3.5 years and never got a smile or any acknowledgement that they'd seen me before. They refused to give me 20ps (in change) for the launderette too. Miserable sods.

Money is in the account, at the bank. Debt is on the credit card, or with the credit card company. The loan is with the bank. But a credit goes on the account (like when you return something to the store and they just put the money back on the card.)

But why would you say try and... It should be try to. Either you try or you do.

OMG that is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. You try 'to'.

In a meeting last week I suggested that they change "are you planning on enrolling fall semester" to "are you planning to enroll fall semester" or something similar, can't remember exactly but it was between 'planning on enrolling' and 'planning to enroll.'

They all groaned because they had spent SO MUCH TIME on the document. I said it just doesn't sound right to me. (Sounds stupid, really.)

Later one of them showed me a document from the registration dept that said it the same way I said it should be said.

something else (please let me know)
 

in my bank account

Thank you, and my apologies. I don't know what came over me.

If I start using "impact" in place of affect or effect, please stage an intervention.

I have "money in the bank, but, it's all tied up".

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Thank you all for being my guinea pigs. I was corrected on this matter by a non-English speaker who told me firmly that their dictionary said it was "money on an account at the bank". Yass, I am vindicated!

I've heard the "on account" construction for debt.

did you graduate or were you graduated?

You mean when I was on school?

Furriners talk funny, that's that.

me too. if you get something on account, it means you owe them.

So.... just got in from the hockey and was reminded that the announcer says "That's X's third goal on the season" instead of "third goal of the season. Is that the usual construction here, or is he just weird?

just weird - announcer guy tryin to be Canadian eh?

Kind of reminds me of the whole "She's at the university" vs. "She's at university.", and you could substitute 'university' for 'hospital'. As in "She was taken to hospital" vs. "She was taken to the hospital".

Shit, Grav, articles are about the only thing worse than prepositions. Must you?

I has the monies on account at the banks. Not many monies, because I have much spendings to make.

There. Just like my students' essays.

My daughter went to prom. Sometime in the last 30 years an article got dropped. I blame Canada.

With their beady little eyes and flapping heads so full of lies.

You mean the Canada. Keep up, will you?

See they've got me doing it the maple syrup swigging, snow mobile riding, popular culture subverting hippies.