arnold writes: > in fact, "as best as" has the virtue of conforming syntactically to other >uses of >"as" + Adj, while things like "as best I can see" are syntactically rather >odd. ~~~~~~~~~ The oddity lies in its use with the superlative. Can you think of any other such cases ("as" + superl + "as")? Or, simply, "as"+ superlative? AM