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Thread #77963 Message #1408251
Posted By: GUEST,Joe_F
13-Feb-05 - 01:45 PM
Thread Name: Not-So-Good Lines in Songs
Subject: RE: Not-So-Good Lines in Songs
Guest Guest: No apostrophe needed, especially in Britain. "Round" as an adverb & preposition is perfectly good English, but more common there than in the U.S. Saying "around" in the lines you quote (besides spoiling the meter) would stamp you as an American.
--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
||: What is fascinating in a mirror? A world I am not at the :||
||: center of. :||