[Ads-l] Heard numerous of times on...

[Wilson Gray]

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.


-- 
-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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