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- From: Petch@gvg47.gvg.tek.com (Chuck Petch)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Usage: To try and find the answer.
- Message-ID: <Petch-141092133507@oboe.gvg.tek.com>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 20:32:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oboe.Petch-141092133507
- References: <Bw2ros.GFv@news.iastate.edu>
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- Followup-To: misc.writing
- Organization: Grass Valley Group
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- In article <Bw2ros.GFv@news.iastate.edu>, bible@iastate.edu (Anthony E
- Bible) wrote:
- >
- >
- > I recently finished reading Larry McMurtry's _Lonsome Dove_, which I
- > enjoyed, but I was distracted by his frequent use of the expression
- > "... to try and <verb> ..." instead of "... to try to <verb> ...".
-
- According to the American Heritage English Dictionary (1992), "try and"
- occurs commonly in speech but is considered too informal for use in
- writing. That agrees with what I was taught in graduate school (in English)
- about fifteen years ago. Apparently the times haven't changed that much.
-
- Chuck Petch
-