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Topic translation: As to the duty of pursuing equality, there is no such consent | What do we call the noise that crickets make?
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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Sun May 25, 2008 17:39 pm  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
Molly wrote:
Did you misss Jamie's turnaround?
I didn't notice any 'turnaround' at all. That's apparently your own misinterpretation.
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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Sun May 25, 2008 18:31 pm  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
Yankee wrote:
Molly wrote:
Did you misss Jamie's turnaround?
I didn't notice any 'turnaround' at all. That's apparently your own misinterpretation.
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Hm, interesting.
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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Mon May 26, 2008 0:47 am  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
Molly wrote:
If one searches for the most common examples of "the reaon why * *" in the BNC, one sees that "the reason why it's not" and "the reason why so many" are tops, with 11 examples per 1 million words each. If one then searches those combinations without the "why", one gets:

etc.

But presumably you don't intend to infer a general assessment of the relative frequency of the two versions (with and without "why") from those two particular phrases?

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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Mon May 26, 2008 8:43 am  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
MrPedantic wrote:
But presumably you don't intend to infer a general assessment of the relative frequency of the two versions (with and without "why") from those two particular phrases?

MrP

If I didn't infer such from the intuition of one native speaker, why would I infer such from two examples. The search goes on.

BTW, would you infer the same as this commetator?

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I doubt that any of us really know which is more common in formal English.
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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Tue May 27, 2008 1:37 am  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
Molly wrote:
BTW, would you infer the same as this commetator?

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I doubt that any of us really know which is more common in formal English.

Infer it from what?

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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Tue May 27, 2008 10:22 am  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
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Infer it from what?

MrP

From usage.
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Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.) Tue May 27, 2008 23:58 pm  Grammatically correct? (It is the only reason I stay on here.)		  
Would I infer "from usage" that no one really knows which is the more common?

I'm not sure that's an entirely reasonable question. It's a little like asking whether, from my experience of eating fruit, I could infer that no one really knows if apples or pears are the more common. So no, I wouldn't.

But I suspect that Jamie's statement was based, not "on usage", but on the fairly safe assumption that no one has the numbers.

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