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- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!paladin.american.edu!auvm!hersch
- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:13:39 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92366.171339HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: English N. Sg. w/Pl. Agreement
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- In article <hayesstw.154.725822187@risc1.unisa.ac.za>,
- hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes) says:
- >
- >Of course Americans always seem to use "among" when they mean "between"...
- >
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- We do? I thought Americans used "between" when they meant "among".
- "This is just among you and me, okay?" "In 1870 there was a war
- among Prussia and France." "My apartment is among Dupont Circle and
- Logan Circle." Nope, I just can't feature these.
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- H.
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- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
-