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Renee
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:26 am
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Which is correct? I hear both in my workplace and it's driving me crazy!
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Skitt
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:45 am
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Renee rakstija:
| Quote: | Which is correct? I hear both in my workplace and it's driving me
crazy!
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With regard to the above, I send you my regards,
Skitt |
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Adrian Bailey
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:51 am
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"Renee" <reneeh63@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:8820eb75.0411071126.545dcf1@posting.google.com...
| Quote: | Which is correct? I hear both in my workplace and it's driving me crazy!
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regard. Unless you're sending someone a greeting.
Adrian
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Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:25 am
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Adrian Bailey kirjoitti:
| Quote: | "Renee" wrote:
Which is correct? I hear both in my workplace
and it's driving me crazy!
regard. Unless you're sending someone a greeting.
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Don't forget there's also "as regards" = concerning.
^
"With regards to" appears to be a blend of "with regard" and "as regards."
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Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:18 pm
Post subject: Re: "With REGARD to" versus "with REGARDS to" |
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On 7 Nov 2004 11:26:53 -0800, reneeh63@insightbb.com (Renee) wrote:
| Quote: | Which is correct? I hear both in my workplace and it's driving me crazy!
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It depends on the context.
"With regard to" is a clumsy, ponderous, pompous, redundant and pleonastic way
of saying "about".
"With regards to" is a semi-formal way of asking someone to greet a third
party on your behalf, as in "with regards to your wife".
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Stan Brown
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:21 pm
Post subject: Re: "With REGARD to" versus "with REGARDS to" |
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"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
| Quote: | On 7 Nov 2004 11:26:53 -0800, reneeh63@insightbb.com (Renee) wrote:
Which is correct? I hear both in my workplace and it's driving me crazy!
It depends on the context.
"With regard to" is a clumsy, ponderous, pompous, redundant and pleonastic way
of saying "about".
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It can be, I agree.
But it also seems to me like a nice way of changing the subject in a
letter: it signals the reader that something new is coming. For
instance, you're writing to complain about a restaurant meal: the
food was vile and the portions were to small. After expatiating on
the undercooked whitefish and gluey sauce, you start a new
paragraph:
With regard to the portion size, ...
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowa-
days, (long pause) you just put in cream." --Julia Child |
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:18 am
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:21:23 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
wrote:
| Quote: | "Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
On 7 Nov 2004 11:26:53 -0800, reneeh63@insightbb.com (Renee) wrote:
But it also seems to me like a nice way of changing the subject in a
letter: it signals the reader that something new is coming. For
instance, you're writing to complain about a restaurant meal: the
food was vile and the portions were to small. After expatiating on
the undercooked whitefish and gluey sauce, you start a new
paragraph:
With regard to the portion size, ...
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"Concerning" would do the job as well as the clumsy phrase.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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