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#1 2008-01-06 18:09:22

Roxy
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"once and a while" instead of "once in a while"

spotted today—it’s good there’s a place to report these crimes

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#2 2008-01-07 11:28:52

TootsNYC
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Re: "once and a while" instead of "once in a while"

I tend to think of them less as crimes and more as indicators of things people assume that are different from what I assume.

And as proof that people don’t read, or they don’t link what they read with what they hear.

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