I lately lost a preposition

[Joel S. Berson]

Sorry!  I thought everyone knew Joseph Hall (1574--1656), Bishop of
Exeter, controversial minister, and prolific author of both satires
and religious works.  Much republished.

DD here is Doctor of Divinity, to which he proceeded some time after
his Bachelor's and ordination.

Joel

At 2/9/2008 05:16 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>What is DD? If it's someone's initials, isn't this a slip for "preceded"?
>
>On Feb 7, 2008 9:40 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> >  From the Dictionary of National Biography (recent print edition):
> >
> > "[Joseph] Hall proceeded DD in ...".
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 2/5/2008 12:03 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > >At 1/29/2008 08:33 PM, sagehen wrote:
> > >>More prepositions lost; this time on The World (BBC/WGBH) news program.
> > Brit
> > >>newsreader used the expression "agree a sthg" twice,  rendering what I'd
> > >>have thought an intransitive verb transitive.  A minute or two later, th
> > e
> > >>American newsreader used "agree" with /to/ or /with/  or /on/  (I don't
> > >>remember which as we usually do. Is this prepositionless "agree" now the
> > >>norm in Britain?
> > >
> > >I just wrote, in an email message but I would probably also in a
> > >letter, "I would want to make any agreed changes myself."  And I'm in
> > America.
> > >
> > >Joel
> > >
>
>
>
>
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>Mark Mandel
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