Talk:If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake
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I've removed the to be honest about it completely incorrect phrase that Gracie Fields' version is the most well known which obviously anywhere outside England was complete rubbish.Talk about a Little Englander mentality and I thought thought Americans had the monopoly on arrogance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.91.83 (talk) 13:08, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
- No Lyrics? Can't sing this without lyrics to my baby. 72.148.31.114 (talk) 18:05, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
>Grammar[edit]
Should the article mention that the lyrics are, in fact, ungrammatical? They use the wrong sequence of tenses. Corrected, it would be "If I'd known you were coming...". Kelisi (talk) 06:48, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
- @Kelisi: The lyrics aren't strictly ungrammatical, they just follow the grammar of a nonstandard variety of English. I had a Portuguese-language teacher in college who made the same objection, though, and made sure the students got equivalent conditional constructions in Portuguese correct. —Mahāgaja · talk 10:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Time?[edit]
This phrase was used in the 1937 3 Stooges short “Cash and Carry”. Was the phrase common before the song, and where did it come from? 2601:647:5800:7D80:4046:CEC:C486:33E0 (talk) 05:36, 25 March 2022 (UTC)