Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:36 pm
Post subject: Re: "over" phrases |
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"Odysseus" <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote in message
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| Quote: | meirman wrote:
In alt.english.usage on Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:50:36 +0200 Bartek
b_nowicki@op.pl> posted:
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20. Look, overleaf it says to take the overpass!
[snip]
Don't you want, The overleaf says to.... OR On the overleaf it says
to...
I can't recall ever seeing "overleaf" used as anything but an adverb,
as in "See overleaf for instructions." The corresponding noun
(phrase) is usually just something like "the back", or "the
other/reverse side".
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Right. I don't think "the overleaf" can be correct. Technically, though, as
somebody has mentioned, it's "recto" and "verso", like the obverse and
reverse of a coin.
And, Bartek, remember that while a page has two sides, that doesn't mean the
same thing as the two sides of the "leaf". "The other side of the page"
refers to your left or right of the same page, not to the other side of the
piece of paper. But page 2 is overleaf from page 1.
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Mike
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meirman
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:23 am
Post subject: Re: "over" phrases |
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In alt.english.usage on Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:36:54 +0100 "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> posted:
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"Odysseus" <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote in message
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meirman wrote:
In alt.english.usage on Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:50:36 +0200 Bartek
b_nowicki@op.pl> posted:
[snip]
20. Look, overleaf it says to take the overpass!
[snip]
Don't you want, The overleaf says to.... OR On the overleaf it says
to...
I can't recall ever seeing "overleaf" used as anything but an adverb,
as in "See overleaf for instructions." The corresponding noun
(phrase) is usually just something like "the back", or "the
other/reverse side".
Right. I don't think "the overleaf" can be correct. Technically, though, as
somebody has mentioned, it's "recto" and "verso", like the obverse and
reverse of a coin.
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You guys are right. I guess I had never seen the word before. At
least I don't remember seeing in the past 30 years. And I thought it
was a form of leaf.  >
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And, Bartek, remember that while a page has two sides, that doesn't mean the
same thing as the two sides of the "leaf". "The other side of the page"
refers to your left or right of the same page, not to the other side of the
piece of paper. But page 2 is overleaf from page 1.
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s/ meirman If you are emailing me please
say if you are posting the same response.
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Indianapolis, 7 years
Chicago, 6 years
Brooklyn NY 12 years
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