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Subject:RE: the liaison between or the liaison among?? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:13:49 -0400
Yeah, I guess Webster beats Mintz! Good game, good game.
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> From: Janet Swisher
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> Subject: Re: the liaison between or the liaison among??
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> ... Mrs. Mintz may have been clear about it, but Noah Webster and
> the OED make more sense to me. I see nothing wrong with being
> a liaison between several parties, as any connecting or
> communicating you do happens between two of them at a time.
> "Among" fails to capture the collection of binary relationships...
>
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