"make love"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 19 04:54:17 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> nowadays the preposition
> "with" is probably preferred to "to."
>

I haven't come across this "make love with," yet. With any luck, I never
will. If "make love to" was good enough for both Jo Stafford and Muddy
Waters, it's good enough for me. ;-)

-- 
-Wilson
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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.
-Mark Twain

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