muddled prepositons

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Dec 10 18:40:06 UTC 2012


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> Which doesn't explain the "in"!

WAG: It replaces "with," already in the quote?

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