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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Lately I’ve seen “buy” in place of “by” on occasion in phrases such as “buy the pound” or “buy the cup” (e.g., “coffee buy the pound”). Evidently the idea is that you’re buying the pound or the cup or the whatever, so it must be “buy,” even though it results in a phrase that would be syntactically misplaced by the usual rules. Evidently awareness of this function of “by” is waning.
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