THE Reverend Wright

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> it used to be

It was at one time preferred, perhaps, at some time before I learned
to read ca.1941.

And, of course, there's that appeal to authority on a site that
supposedly discusses *usage*!

Needless to say, when authority supports *my* personal preference, I
see no reason not to appeal to it.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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