"on accident" posting #3

[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Barnhart wrote:
>The Nexis search brought up 19,774 articles with "on .... accident."  A
>search through these found a couple very recent articles.  I shifted to
>searching from the earliest to the most recent and found my first hit at
>1987.

How often is another word (or more) inserted bwtween the word "on" and
the word "accident"? Your "on .... accident" suggests that you found
both "on accident" and on [....] accident."

Bethany