Hi, Anton! Recently you wrote in an addendum to yourself:
AS> Since the new virus is more deadly than flu, it is only
AS> meet to give it more weight over other factors in the
AS> attribution of death.
AS> Mefears it is an illiterate usage of "meet". Should not
AS> I have written instead: "...it is only meet that it
AS> (should) receive more weight over other factors..."
AFAIK the second alternative is the usual construction...
AS> I have not found a reliable number of instances of "it
AS> is only meet to" in Google books, although I see no
AS> problem with it...
... but I see no grammatical reason to avoid using the first. :-)
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