[Ads-l] Heard annoyingly often with "for"

[Wilson Gray]

"convicted _for_ [...]"; Google: About 892,000 results

"convicted _of_ [...]"; Google: About 1,170,000 results


_Of_ still leads, but _for_ is coming up quickly on the inside.


-- 
-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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