Loosening a "fixed expression"

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:31 PM -0400 8/24/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>"I am often _betwixt and befuddled_ by the hypocrisy ..."

Reminds me of the old Rogers and Hart classic "Betwixt Bothered and Bewildered"

LH

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>Some of the village elders here may recall _betwixt and between_ as
>having once been described by restrictive grammarians as a "fixed expression."
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>I wonder what the writer understands by "betwixt."
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>-Wilson
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