"among" = "between"

Barbara Need nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Thu Mar 3 23:29:23 UTC 2005


>This tendency has also spread predictably to "amongst."
>
>Within the past hour, Diane Dimond, summarizing testimony in the
>Michael Jackson trial for Court TV,  said,
>
>"She saw them [viz., her brother and Michael Jackson] whispering
>amongst themselves."
>
>JL

Actually, this confusion dates to Old English! (Without my
dictionary) I remember seeing 'among' as one of the definitions for
betweon.

Barbara



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