another lost preposition

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Feb 11, 2008 9:48 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> this time in AmE vs. BrE.
>
> paraphrasing Garner's Modern American Usage (2003):
>
>   protest against: against may be omitted in AmE, but not in BrE (649)

Discussed by Jan Freeman last year, along with "battle (against)" and
"appeal (against)":

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/09/09/yankees_win/


--Ben Zimmer

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