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‘English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet’

November 21, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

I admit it, I do this a lot, at least in my brain:

As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: “‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar.”

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