on the other hand

[Mark Mandel]

I always use it. "On the one hand..., on the other hand..."

More generally, here are some raw googit counts (non-personalized):
about 157,000,000 for "on the one hand"
about 11,300,000 for "on one hand"
about 142,000,000 for "on the other hand"

Mark Mandel

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Victor <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How common is the use of definite article with "on one hand"/"on one side"?
>
> http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=d22fe4c9-6f8c-4c0d-93af-aed79ad3b467
> _On the one side_, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and
> conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims.
>
> Â  Â VS-)
>
> PS: The piece is worth reading in its own right, but not for linguistic
> reasons.

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