{"id":39319,"date":"2013-10-23T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/amongst.html"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:30:10","slug":"amongst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/amongst.html","title":{"rendered":"Amongst"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yeah, I use it. But I like playing with formal (or formal-sounding) language.<\/div>\n

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Do You Say Amongst Instead of Among? Here’s Why.<\/a>
\n In the first episode of the Showtime series Masters of Sex, William Masters is talking to a prostitute named Betty, and notes that she faked an orgasm during sex. “Is that a common practice among prostitutes?” he asks her. \u00a0“It\u2019s a common practice amongst anyone with a twat,” Betty replies….\n <\/p>\n

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Yeah, I use it. But I like playing with formal (or formal-sounding) language. Do You Say Amongst Instead of Among? Here’s Why. 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