[Ads-l] Seen: "I'm saddened to say. "

[Benjamin Barrett]

I agree this sounds a little odd. Google gives it 30K hits. BB

> On Dec 6, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this ordinary? Not that there's anything wrong with saying it in that
> way, of course.
> 
> For me, it's "I'm sad to say" or "It saddens me to say."

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