IN a movie, ON TV

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Why is one IN a movie, but ON TV?

And ON THE radio?

Hearing people say, in like manner, "on _the_ TV" used to annoy me,
when I was lucky enough not to have anything more pressing to be
concerned about.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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