> Since I'm inflecting was/were using the 2nd Conditional tense instead, my original sentence should have been phrased thusly:
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> "If Dave wasn't such a babe in his scrumptious Chicken Suit, I would smack him right upside the head."
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> My question is whether THAT statement is grammatically correct.
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> Wolf "Grammarians, Shammaritans..." spirit

Hmm. Now that I think about it, I've heard guys called "babes" by girls. Only on TV, though. Either I was fortunate enough to not hear it in reality, or to escape being in the generation that started that. :-)

Nyperold