Learn English – How to “spread some words about” or “spread some word about”

I take the real question here to be: "Why do some people pedantically cling to dying forms?" That's a good question. I think the answer is relatively straightforward.

People who want to present an air of education and in general lay claim to upper class privilege are the ones who tend to do this. It's largely because it is an index of education and a high degree of literacy (either that or role playing games, which is somewhat different, but still primarily an upper middle class past time...).

There is a lot more to it than that, of course. There is an intricate set of language ideologies which give rise to this kind of behavior. But the short answer is that in using such forms people attempt to identify with culturally and economically powerful (hence linguistically conservative) groups .

Everyone does this to some degree, of course.

I think the right answer would be the following.

1. A boy and a girl make a couple, because they make.

2. 5 and 5 makes 10, because I understand you're trying to convey sum, and that would be 5 plus 5, or it makes.

3. 75 and 25 makes 10, because I understand you're trying to convey sum, and that would be 75 plus 25, or it makes.