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Subject:Re: Due To: the real story From:"Dave L. Meek's User Account" <dave -at- ROGUE -dot- DISC-SYNERGY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 25 May 1995 15:18:41 -0700
>Was this intended to refute Strunk and White or to support their argument?
> Surely "In correct use synonymous with attributable to" and "'due to' and
> 'attributable' are interchangeable and equally valid" mean the same thing.
Note
> that Strunk and White contrast the "[l]oosely used" through, because of, or
> owing to constructions with the "correct use" as synonymous with attributable
> to.
>Am I missing something?
>Stephen P. Victor svictor -at- lgc -dot- com
My post was intended to support Strunk and White, which, I
thought, was obvious.
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