[Ads-l] which = 'although'
Jonathan Lighter
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Wed Aug 20 14:41:18 UTC 2025
This must be old, but presumably explained syntactically rather than
lexically. I think the syntactical has become the lexical:
"...his being a golfer (which he does NOT walk the course, he rides or is
driven and the ONLY walking he does is from cart to where his golf ball is
to take a swing."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/guilty-conscience-trumps-raw-confession-090435079.html
(The writer is old enough to write "his" rather than "him.")
JL
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