On 2010-09-03, at 9:38 PM, Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar wrote: > Brett, > > Is this another instance of "slash," your example that Geoffrey Pullum did a nice piece on on Language Log? > See http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2584#more-2584. That was the impetus. Later that night, I was reading and came across 'versus'. Right away I thought that's got to be the same. Best, Brett ----------------------- Brett Reynolds English Language Centre Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Toronto, Ontario, Canada [log in to unmask] To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/