Use the phrase "as it were..."

Pamela · #1 (permalink) Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:46 am *Use the phrase "as it were..."*

Hi all,

Can I use so to speak, one might say, as it were interchangeably (in any context)?

Thanks in advance!

Jamie (K) · #2 (permalink) Fri Jan 26, 2007 13:26 pm *Use the phrase "as it were..."*

I think you can. "As it were" has no precise meaning, and you can live quite comfortably without it. I never use it.

Pamela · #3 (permalink) Fri Jan 26, 2007 13:43 pm *Use the phrase "as it were..."*

Thank you, Jamie (K)!

Tom · #4 (permalink) Fri Jan 26, 2007 21:21 pm *Use the phrase "as it were..."*

Hello, Pamela

You may be interested in reading this:

'So to speak' versus 'As it were'

Tom

Pamela · #5 (permalink) Tue Jan 30, 2007 22:09 pm *Use the phrase "as it were..."*

Hi Tom and thanks!
Your thread has slipped my mind 8)

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