:-) from = for, of.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf. the really really common use of "for" in place of "of":
2009
http://war-poets.blogspot.com/2009/02/epitaph-on-macdiarmids-another-epitaph.html
"The professor - Robert Hass, later poet laureate for the United States -
was interested in the two poems as a conversation, using them to talk about
times where poetry was more vividly and passionately felt than it has been
of late ...."

JL
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Would that Google Books employed some such designation! There, regularly,
> is snippetly quoted a different edition (if not a different author and
> title!) from the one cited.
>
> --Charlie
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> >Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:43:18 -0500
> >From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of
> Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM>)
> >
> >Actually, it does. If you click on the link it takes you to the page for
> another paperback edition of the translation.
> >
> >Barbara
> >Barbara Need
> >Chicago
> >
> >On 26 Oct 2009, at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >
> >> It doesn't.
> >>
> >>
> http://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-Signet-Classics-Old-English/dp/0451527402/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
> >>
> >> Scroll down about a third of the way to the beginning of the "Customer
> Reviews."
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Barbara Need <bhneed at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have been wondering if this means something like a review found on
> the page "Beowulf (Mentor) (Paperback)". Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>>>>> Amazon.com heads some pages of customer reviews like this:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "This review is from: Beowulf (Mentor) (Paperback)"
> >>>
> >>> Barbara
> >>>
> >>> Barbara Need
> >>> Chicago
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