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Re: try and vs try to

#83807 10/19/2002 3:08 AM

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Northamptonshire, England

"try and" rather than "try to" is as bad, IMHO, as the transpondial tendency to posit "visit with" rather than just "visit". When I hear one of our Merckan colleagues say "visit with", it's like two people have met to go and visit some third person ...

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try and vs try to wwh 10/18/2002 5:15 PM

Re: try and vs try to RhubarbCommando 10/18/2002 6:24 PM

Re: try and vs try to tsuwm 10/18/2002 6:44 PM

Re: try and vs try to Sparteye 10/19/2002 1:43 AM

Re: try and vs try to Bobyoungbalt 10/19/2002 1:47 AM

Re: try and vs try to Capital Kiwi 10/19/2002 3:08 AM

Re: visit with AnnaStrophic 10/19/2002 3:42 AM

Re: visit with Capital Kiwi 10/19/2002 4:32 AM

Re: visit with sjm 10/19/2002 5:52 AM

Re: visit with tsuwm 10/19/2002 6:56 AM

Re: visit with Faldage 10/19/2002 11:01 AM

Re: visit with + "on" Buffalo Shrdlu 10/19/2002 11:49 AM

Re: visit with of troy 10/19/2002 12:18 PM

Re: visit with Faldage 10/19/2002 12:39 PM

Re: try and vs try to sjm 10/19/2002 3:13 AM

Re: try and vs try to Sparteye 10/20/2002 4:11 PM

Re: try and vs try to FishonaBike 10/21/2002 11:46 AM

Re: try and vs try to Bean 10/21/2002 2:02 PM

Re: try and vs try to milum 10/19/2002 1:04 PM

Re: try and vs try to Buffalo Shrdlu 10/19/2002 1:14 PM

Re: try and vs try to milum 10/19/2002 2:36 PM

trying to get to the nuculus of the discussion wofahulicodoc 10/19/2002 2:42 PM

Re: trying to get to the nuculus of the discussio milum 10/19/2002 3:08 PM

conference call to the Committee? wofahulicodoc 10/19/2002 3:18 PM

Re: conference call to the Committee? tsuwm 10/19/2002 3:48 PM

Re: conference call to the Committee? Capital Kiwi 10/19/2002 4:46 PM

Trying my patience? musick 10/20/2002 4:55 PM

Re: conference call to the Committee? milum 10/20/2002 6:02 PM

Re: conference call to the Committee? tsuwm 10/20/2002 6:07 PM

Re: try and vs try to of troy 10/19/2002 3:07 PM

Re: try and vs try to Buffalo Shrdlu 10/19/2002 4:53 PM

Re: try and vs try to wsieber 10/21/2002 5:19 AM

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