Re: Terrified of [was Re: Regret the error]

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:23:27 GMT, "Maria Conlon"
<maria.c-b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stephen Calder wrote:

Sir James Murray railed against the spellings abridgment, judgment as
unscholarly. The lawyers keep looking at their bibles and insisting on
an out-of-date spelling. The journalists, terrified of lawyers, cave
in.

"Terrified of" or "terrified by"? I would say the latter, but wonder if
this is a pondian thing.

My instinctive response is that the two mean slightly different
things. I'm having a hard time putting my finger on the precise
difference, though.

"Terrified by ..." suggests that you go pale and run if a lawyer comes
into the room, perhaps, whereas "of" is more a fear of having to
become involved with one in any way.

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Katy Jennison

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