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May 01, 2007, 21:06
<wordnerd>
Awkward phrasing? #2
Here's the second of two bits that struck me as odd in today's paper:Does the word with belong?

[And by the way, the term backhander for bribe was a new one to me. You?]
May 02, 2007, 00:19
Myth Jellies
You have an issue with "issuing with"? Big Grin I find it awkward as well and would prefer to see something like "...issuing a necessary permit to your firm..."


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May 02, 2007, 06:41
arnie
The construction issuing with and backhander are both not uncommon in the UK. Was the author British, by any chance?


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May 02, 2007, 08:44
<wordnerd>
quote: Was the author British, by any chance?

Aha! So he was, and so he is. "Robert Guest ... Mr. Guest is Washington correspondent for the Economist."

PS: I'd mistyped this as correspondint, which i suppose means "a hard-working correspondent." Wink