Genoise -- 1838
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 8 18:28:38 UTC 2011
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> quoted:
> "... leavened _by_ stiffly beaten eggs"
FWIW, IMO, this should read
"... leavened _with_ stiffly beaten eggs"
Considering that I've heard and seen _by_ in the relevant environment
surely hundreds of thousands of times since at least 1970, I'm well
aware that mine is extremely likely to be a minority <har! har!>
position. But, IAC, I'm simply wondering whether even one other reader
agrees with this particular intuition.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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