Legal Blogger takes pride in OED cites (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

I never heard that one!

I do remember reading in a nineteenth-century grammar that "to leave" must
never be used intransitively.

JL

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
> <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> > Legal Blogger takes pride in OED cites
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> Who can put the blame on him? ;-)
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> When I was in high school, it was a prescriptive rule that _blame_
> could *not* be used as a verb. It's too bad that I didn't have an
> example such as this one, at the time.
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> -Wilson
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> or evil intent, we can uncumber ourselves of the impossible burden of
> trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
> that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
> idiotic or unworthy.
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