Re: 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes
- From: naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Christian Weisgerber)
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:33:35 +0000 (UTC)
James Hogg <Jas.Hogg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://litreactor.com/columns/20-common-grammar-mistakes-that-almost-everyone-gets-wrong
And "since" has meant "because" since 1540 at least.
And MWDEU points out that the OED traces "less" with count nouns
back to circa 888 (sic).
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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