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".