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[Mark Mandel]

I see that usage all the time: "too ADJ of a N", where the older (and to my
mind, still correct) version is "too ADJ a N". I suspect it comes from a
generalization of "too much of a N", where the "of" is part of the
quantitative "much of".

Mark

On May 7, 2017 11:24 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bald Eagle swimming after too large _of_ a catch
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMft3Ny7hFk
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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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