Facebook: "[This is the case,] as _for_ noon Nov. 11th."

[Jonathan Lighter]

"For" for "of" is all over the place, as has been mentioned frequently here
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JL

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> There are lots of prepositions. Just close your eyes and grab one out
> of the bag. It matters not.
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> There's nothing like totally-unmotivated syntactic shifts to show that
> meaning is merely context's minion.
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> You know what I'm saying.
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