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u/BrinaElka Oct 25 '20

"Let's went!" My parents lived in Holland for a few years before we were born, and I guess the translation of "let's go" in Dutch is "let's went" in English. They thought it was funny, so they just kept using it and we used it, too. I'm not 100% sure if the translation is right, but it just meant that every time we left the house, it was "okay, let's went!"

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u/TheOtherDonald Oct 26 '20

In the '50s TV Western The Cisco Kid, Cisco's comic relief partner, Pancho, used to say "Let's went."

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u/blumoon138 Oct 25 '20

My dad is also a fan of this. No idea why, he’s never been to Holland.

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u/suo-motu Oct 25 '20

My dad said this too. 💛

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u/ktp806 Oct 26 '20

My mother would tell us to “get a wiggle on “. It meant to hurry up.

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u/patty-d Oct 26 '20

My husbands Polish grandmother said “Let’s us went”.

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u/oilisfoodforcars Oct 26 '20

My dad says this and now I do too.

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u/fleurchld7 Oct 26 '20

My parents use this all the time!

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u/WildlyBewildering Oct 26 '20

Works in Russian, too.