Positive _(al)though_

[Jonathan Lighter]

"It's become annoyingly common"?

Oh, God, no!

JL

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Have other people come across this phenomenon? Oddly, I don't think
> that I've ever heard a spoken example of this. But it's become
> annoyingly common in print. Here's an example from SI July 18, 2011,
> p.58a:
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> "_Though_ the lightning had probably struck _within 50 yards_ of them,
> [nevertheless,] electricity buckled their legs..."
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> Say what, now?
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