IN a movie, ON TV

[Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700]

And not on the mat?

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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Laurence Horn

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Subject: Re: IN a movie, ON TV

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Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: IN a movie, ON TV
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On Oct 4, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>> Why is one IN a movie, but ON TV?
>
> And ON THE radio?
>
> Hearing people say, in like manner, "on _the_ TV" used to annoy me,
> when I was lucky enough not to have anything more pressing to be
> concerned about.
>
We used to enjoy telling people our cat was on the TV, which of course
she was--literally.

LH

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