PREP-addition

[Wilson Gray]

No-o-o-o!

-Wilson

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It's also happening with other lexemes in similar constructions. The
> other day I noticed "X [be] bestowed with Y" for "Y [be] bestowed
> (up)on X". Google gives about 257,000 raw hits for "bestowed with".
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> m a m
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