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The preposition "to" | Late 60s, early 60s etc
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Description about? #1 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 22:33 pm   Description about?
 

Hi, Yahoo requires you to write a description about your website if you want to use their Searchmarketing services.
Can you write a description about a website? Shouldn't it read write a description of your website?

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A description of #2 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 23:43 pm   A description of
 

'To write a description of something' or 'to write about something' sounds more natural to me. Saying 'to write a description about' would be a bit like saying 'to write about about'!
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Description about? #3 (permalink) Sun Sep 17, 2006 0:04 am   Description about?
 

Hi Torsten

I agree. Description of is standard and much more common.

Maybe techies are most likely to write description about for reasons such as this:
<rdf:Description about="http://

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