"conceive (of)"

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Tue Dec 9 18:40:42 UTC 2008


On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> And then there's "approve (of)? That's another one with people appear
> to have different intuitions or different perceptions as to what
> constitutes the "correct" form in a variety of contexts...

see:
   AZ, 5/15/08: approve (of):
  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=156

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