"Let in the light" "Waiting on you"

AnonymousSame question for "on" in "Waiting on you".

This is odd and unnatural. People normally say waiting for you.

AnonymousThis is odd and unnatural. People normally say waiting for you.

In the U.S. the waiter or waitress in a restaurant waits on the customers. It's perfectly natural here.

CJ

CalifJim AnonymousThis is odd and unnatural. People normally say waiting for you.In the U.S. the waiter or waitress in a restaurant waits on the customers. It's perfectly natural here.CJ

That means it is one of those differences that American English has.

AnonymousThat means it is one of those differences that American English has.

Differences from what? Waiters and waitresses wait on people in Britain, too. And I like my wife to wait on me hand and foot - I deserve it.

For me also, "wait on" is perfectly normal in the "wait on people in a restaurant" sense, and "wait for" is perfectly normal in the sense like "wait for Mr Smith to arrive". I think that some people do use "wait on" for the latter meaning too, at least in some situations, e.g. "We're still waiting on Mr Smith". I don't use it that way myself.

GPY"We're still waiting on Mr Smith". I don't use it that way myself.

Nor does this speaker of BrE,

fivejedjon GPY"We're still waiting on Mr Smith". I don't use it that way myself.Nor does this speaker of BrE,

Nor I (AmE).

CJ