Versus

[Wilson Gray]

It seems familiar to me, too.

-Wilson

On 1/24/08, Scot LaFaive <scotlafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Scot LaFaive <scotlafaive at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Versus
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Today I heard a radio traffic reporter refer to a semi-truck and car
> accident as "a car versus a semi" on the road. I seem to remember hearing
> this at least once before. Anyone else heard such a usage?
>
> Scot
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>


--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
                                              -Sam'l Clemens

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org