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What's the difference between 'betwixt' and 'between'?
What's the difference between 'betwixt' and 'between'?
and please give some examples~ thanks~
27 авг. 2012 г., 10:12
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No difference : in a midway position : neither one thing nor the other adverb/adjective
However 'between' is often used these days in place of 'in between' which is a preposition. The lamp is in between/between the table and the wall.
27 августа 2012 г.
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"Betwixt" is a literary form not used in ordinary communication. A whimsical expression is "betwixt and between", which means "neither here nor there" or "not one thing or the other".
27 августа 2012 г.
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The word “betwixt,” by the way, is an old-fashioned version of “between,” though both words have been around in various forms since Anglo-Saxon times.
I've not heard "betwixt" used in normal conversation.
However, the expression “betwixt and between,” meaning neither one thing nor the other, is a relative newcomer.
example--I'm betwixt and between canceling my trip entirely or just postponing it, or Austin is betwixt and between about accepting the offer.
27 августа 2012 г.
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