Embarrassingly Enough, ...

[Mark A. Mandel]

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>:
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And speaking of epidemics of odd preposition use: Little by little over the
past few years, my students seem to be globally replacing "in" with "within"
("Within sonnet 19, Milton alludes to . . ."). WHY, I wonder.

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Because longer = more impressive.

-- Mark
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