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- From: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: between, among
- Message-ID: <hayesstw.230.728130510@risc1.unisa.ac.za>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:28:30 GMT
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- In article <Mildred_Thill-240738131021@madadm02.educ.ualberta.ca> Mildred_Thill@ACT.EDUC.UALBERTA.CA (Mildred Thill) writes:
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- >A few days ago, a parents group I belong to got into a bit of an arguement
- >about how to use beween and among. Some of us thought that between should
- >be used only when referring to two things, but not three or more. However
- >some said that in the sentence, "We want to improve communication among
- >teachers, parents and the members of the community", 'between' would work
- >just as well, with the proviso that it emphasized the two way communication
- >between each possible pair in the group.
-
- B.A. Phythian, in his "A concise dictionary of correct English" (Hodder &
- Stoughton, 1979) puts it thus:
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- Between expresses the relationship of something to two or more surrounding
- things, severally and individually. Amog expresses a relationship to them
- collectively and equally. Thus
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- You can camp between (not among) the river, the wood and the wall.
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- You'll have to search among (not between) all those papers to find it.
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