Thursday, May 12, 2016

Prepositional Pet Peeve

Ngram only returns book results, and only through 2008. If the corpus was all published material through 2016, I bet the red line would cross the blue line.


Yes, yes, living language and all that. But enamored with grates almost as much as singular they.

P.S. Enamored by? No. Not budging on this. That's just wrong.

1 comment:

Kevin Robbins said...

I'd never given it a lot of thought, strangely. Must go with enamored with.

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