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[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, I've seen this so often over the past ten years or so that I'd term
it "semi-standard," at least. At first, this usage appeared to be confined
to non-native speakers. Anymore, it seems to be used everywhere by
everybody, on line and in books - or should that be, "online and inbooks"?

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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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