"traced to"

[victor steinbok]

Once again, I sent the reply to one person only. Re-sending with minor
additions:

I'd venture to guess that English is not the primary language of either of
the two correspondents... Doesn't mean that they are not fluent, but I've
seen similarly odd constructs from perfectly fluent Scandinavian, Dutch and
German English speakers, not to mention US immigrants from various parts of
the world.

>
VS-)

>

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:00 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> <
JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

>
> Atlantic City Press, Monday, June 6, 2011, page A3
>
>> "E. coli traced back to organic farm"
>
>> AP dispatch by Kirsten Grieshaber and Tomislav Skaro
>
>>
> "Preliminary tests found that bean sprouts and other sprout varieties from
> the farm in the Uelzen area could be traced to infections in five German
> states"
>
>>
> I would have written "infections...could be traced back to the farm" and
> the headline writer appears to have agreed with me.
>
>>
>   - Jim Landau
>

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