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I wrote: > Since the new virus is more deadly than flu, it is only meet to > give it more weight over other factors in the attribution of > death. Mefears it is an illiterate usage of "meet". Should not I have written instead: "...it is only meet that it (should) receive more weight over other factors..." I have not found a reliable number of instances of "it is only meet to" in Google books, although I see no problem with it... ---* Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) |
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