"in love at first sight with"

[Stephen Goranson]

I didn't see this years' Emmys, but the unfamiliarity may arise not only from
the syntax, but from the two additional prepositions, however placed, as "It
was love at first sight" without "in" or "with" (more punctiliar onset?) is so
expected:
"it was love at first sight" ~354,000 google
"love at first sight" ~3,210,000

But detailed analysis might require specifying which "angel"--three rather
different voices IIRC.

Stephen


>> 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

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