[Ads-l] Heard numerous of times on...
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 7 00:42:13 UTC 2016
random cop-operas:
"... arrested _for_ suspicion of .../arrested _for_ a charge of ..."
It used to be the case that people used _on_ instead of _for_.
The legend of Sisyphus may have originated as a metaphor the inexorable
process of language change.
Youneverknow.
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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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