"in love at first sight with"

[Scot LaFaive]

I have to go with the Angel. "In love with at first site" sounds the weirder of the two. Does that make me the fourth angel?
Scot LaFaive



> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:16:54 -0400> From: nbierm65 at CALVIN.EDU> Subject: "in love at first sight with"> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>> Poster:       Nathan Bierma <nbierm65 at CALVIN.EDU>> Subject:      "in love at first sight with"> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > On the Emmy's last night when one of the original Charlie's Angels described> Aaron Spelling as someone she fell "in love at first sight with," it sounded> unusual to me to place the "with" after "at first sight." (I'm no persecutor of> preposition stranders; it just sounded like an unusual placement.)> > A quick and dirty investigation (Googling), however, yields:> >  about 35,800 for "in love at first sight with"> >  about 896 for "in love with at first sight"> > > So I guess it's Charlie's Angels 1, My Intuitions, 0 -- but does that sound> less intuitive to anyone else?> > Nathan Bierma> "On Language"> Chicago Tribune> www.nbierma.com/language> > ------------------------------------------------------------> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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