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Thread #99614 Message #1988216
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
06-Mar-07 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Declining Standards of English
Subject: RE: BS: Declining Standards of English
A usage that irks me terribly is the "between-to" combination. As in, "I didn't count the people at the party, but I think there were between twenty to thirty there."
"Between" goes with "and" whereas "From" goes with "to"